Since I obviously have not expressed myself in a clear enough manner for some to understand what I am trying to say, I will let one of the greatest minds of the previous century speak.
And even with repeated warnings by this Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and many before and after him, nothing at all has changed. Man is still the brute animal that he has always been. It is ironic that Alfred Bernhard Nobel invented dynamite and was ever regretful for his contribution to mans' ability to wage war.
I have been corrected, and rightly so, for my earlier statements referring to "the Average American" and "Southerners" as being moronic imbeciles. "The South" and "America" certainly have no monopoly on "morons". It just so happens that the world is full of them. They have just enough reasoning ability to be dangerous, and to kill each other... even their own!
I certainly do not mean to be condescending. I only wish to point out the TRUTH of the folly of mankind. They just happen to be in my face where I live. So, they get the brunt of my wrath here. People kill because they are taught to kill. Now, who's fault is that?
I speak these difficult truths precisely because I DO care! Because more people need to wake up! Hell, from appearances, the vast majority of mankind needs to wake up... before it is too late. And it may already be too late.
"I gladly accept this award as an expression of friendly sentiments. It gives me great pleasure, indeed, to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. To be sure, we are concerned here with non-conformism in a remote field of endeavor, and no Senatorial committee has as yet felt impelled to tackle the important task of combating, also in this field, the dangers which threaten the inner security of the uncritical or else intimidated citizen."
Radio Broadcast, May 4, 1953
"We thus arrive at a conception of the relation of science to religion very different from the usual one. When one views the matter historically, one is inclined to look upon science and religion as irreconcilable antagonists, and for a very obvious reason. The man who is thoroughly convinced of the universal operation of the law of causation cannot for a moment entertain the idea of a being who interferes in the course of events--provided, of course, that he takes the hypothesis of causality really seriously. He has no use for the religion of fear and equally little for social or moral religion. A God who rewards and punishes is inconceivable to him for the simple reason that a man's actions are determined by necessity, external and internal, so that in God's eyes he cannot be responsible, any more than an inanimate object is responsible for the motions it undergoes. Science has therefore been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
New York Times, November 9, 1930
"We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the hand full of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends."
Mein Weltbild, Querido Verlag, 1934
"But I also believe that it can come through agreement and through the force of persuasion alone, hence at low cost. But if it is to come in this way, it will not be enough to appeal to reason. 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. Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed. Those to whom the moral teaching of the human race is entrusted surely have a great duty and a great opportunity. The atomic scientists, I think, have become convinced that they cannot arouse the American people to the truths of the atomic era by logic alone. There must be added that deep power of emotion which is a basic ingredient of religion. It is to be hoped that not only the churches but the schools, the colleges, and the leading organs of opinion will acquit themselves well of their unique responsibility in this regard."
Atlantic Monthly, Boston, November, 1945, and November 1947
Collected from "Ideas and Opinions", Albert Einstein
Copyright 1954 by Crown Publishers, Inc.
And even with repeated warnings by this Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and many before and after him, nothing at all has changed. Man is still the brute animal that he has always been. It is ironic that Alfred Bernhard Nobel invented dynamite and was ever regretful for his contribution to mans' ability to wage war.
I have been corrected, and rightly so, for my earlier statements referring to "the Average American" and "Southerners" as being moronic imbeciles. "The South" and "America" certainly have no monopoly on "morons". It just so happens that the world is full of them. They have just enough reasoning ability to be dangerous, and to kill each other... even their own!
I certainly do not mean to be condescending. I only wish to point out the TRUTH of the folly of mankind. They just happen to be in my face where I live. So, they get the brunt of my wrath here. People kill because they are taught to kill. Now, who's fault is that?
I speak these difficult truths precisely because I DO care! Because more people need to wake up! Hell, from appearances, the vast majority of mankind needs to wake up... before it is too late. And it may already be too late.
