It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.