Albert Einstein Quotes

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks!

If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?

The lesson of the Cuban Missile Crisis is plain: Strength prevents war; weakness invites it. We need a commander-in-chief who understands that - and who won't leave us facing a foe who thinks he doesn't.

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.

This is the reality of nuclear weapons: they may trigger a world war; a war which, unlike previous ones, destroys all of civilization.

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

Our country has never started a war. Our sole objective is deterrence, the strength and capability it takes to prevent war.

We ought to nuke North Korea right about now just to give the world a warning.

Do not play with fire in Indonesia … let not the lack of understanding by America lead to a third world war.

I’m not starting World War III for you.

He who is calmly convinced of the probability of a great European war can come to no other conclusion than the following: The next European war will be such a desperate gamble as the world has never seen. In all probability it will be the last war.

The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available. ... Therefore, we must expect that if another war — a serious war — breaks out, we will use nuclear energy in some form.

I built a nuclear option to get peace, not to have bombs. Our enemies learned that they could not destroy us.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.