Quote

In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.

Albert Einstein

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Albert Einstein
Age: 76 †
Born: 1879
Born: March 14
Died: 1955
Died: April 18
Inventor
Mathematician
Non-Fiction Writer
Patent Examiner
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Philosopher Of Science
Physicist
Professor
Science Writer
Ulm alb-Donau
Einstein
A. Einstein
Revolution
Balance
Healthy
Degeneration
Nation
Prevents
Nations
Rebellion
Government
Dramatic
Kind
People
Tyranny

More quotes by Albert Einstein

Image
Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.
Albert Einstein
Image
Only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.
Albert Einstein
Image
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.
Albert Einstein
Image
The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family
Albert Einstein
Image
When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.
Albert Einstein
Image
Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
Albert Einstein
Image
The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.
Albert Einstein
Image
I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.
Albert Einstein
Image
We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking
Albert Einstein
Image
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Albert Einstein
Image
In a sailboat I become oblivious to everything else in the world.
Albert Einstein
Image
Everything that exists in your life, does so because of two things: something you did or something you didn't do.
Albert Einstein
Image
I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature.
Albert Einstein
Image
There's something to be said for relatives...it has to be said because it's unprintable!
Albert Einstein
Image
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
Image
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Albert Einstein
Image
Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.
Albert Einstein
Image
It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
Albert Einstein
Image
Those people have seen 'something'. What it is I do not know and I can not care to know.
Albert Einstein
Image
Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.
Albert Einstein