Poems List

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
One who's our friend is fond of us one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend. Geoffrey F.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

In 1932, Einstein spoke to the journal of Young Israel in New York. This quote comes from that interview and also appeared in the New York Times.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands the whole person. Toscanini demonstrates this in every manifestation of his life.

From 1938, on the Italian musician and conductor Arturo Toscanini when he given an American Hebrew Medal. Like Einstein, Toscanini abhorred fascism and was exiled to the United States in the 1930s.

Organized power can be opposed only by organized power. Much as I regret this, there is no other way.

Einstein told this to a pacifist student in 1941. A 62-year-old Einstein had finally come to a pragmatic support of US involvement in World War II.

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Out of clutter, find simplicity.

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