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Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

Nearing the end of his life at 75 in 1954, Einstein might have been labeled a grumpy old man. In truth, this sentiment did not come on at an old age, and it does not reflect an overall grumpiness, just what Einstein would determine an accurate assessment.
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

For those of us who believe in physics, the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Less than a month before dying in 1955, Einstein wrote this in a letter of condolence to the family of Michele Besso, his longtime friend who had just passed away.

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

This quote is from the book The World As I See It , under the section The World As I See It.
Force always attracts men of low morality.

Freedom, in any case, is only possible by constantly struggling for it. A citizenry that is politically indifferent will always end up enslaved no matter what form its constitution and legal institutions take.

Here Einstein makes the case that unchecked power and authority always will move to strengthen itself with more power and authority, whether it exists inside a democracy or not.

Funny people, these Germans. To them I am a stinking flower, yet they make me into a boutonniere time and time again.

This was taken from Einstein’s travel diary in 1925.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Genius has limitations; stupidity is boundless.

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