Albert Einstein Quotes

A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

Albert Einstein

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• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• You don't talk to terror organizations!

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Talk
  • Terror

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Nature
  • City
  • Sea

• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Hours
  • Lifetime
  • Terror

• Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Great
  • Body
  • Belief

• It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  

  Alfred Jarry
  • Water
  • Poison
  • Absinthe

• I thought English is a strange language. Now I think French is even more strange. In France, their fish is poisson, their bread is pain, and their pancake is crepe. Pain and poison and crap. That's what they have every day.

  

  Xiaolu Guo
  • Thinking
  • Pain
  • English

• We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Chance
  • Cutting
  • Terror

• I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sacrifice
  • Eternity

• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Curious

• The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Failure
  • Poison
  • Rumor

• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hero
  • Principles
  • Terror

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Terror

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Poison

• Not according to this," Jazz said, taking the report. "No evidence of sexual activity or anything like it." "Well, there's that," Howie said, sounding relieved. Jazz wondered at that - was it really so much better to be unmolested, but still murdered in a horrible fashion? To die in pain and terror, stripped, left in a field, your fingers cut off? But as long as you weren't raped, well, that was alright, then? Did it really matter at that point?

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Pain
  • Jazz
  • Terror

• The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

  

  Wyatt Earp
  • Lessons
  • Winner
  • Poison

• We know that silence equals consent when atrocities are committed against innocent men, women and children. We know that indifference equals complicity when bigotry, hatred and intolerance are allowed to take root. And we know that education and hope are the most effective ways to combat ignorance and despair.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

  

  Harold Washington
  • Still
  • Count
  • Overconfident

• A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Terror
  • Poison
  • Perish