Albert Einstein Quote

Quote from Albert Einstein,

"How is it these devices succeed so well in rousing men to such wild enthusiasm, even to sacrifice their lives? Only one answer is possible. Because man has within him a lust for hatred and destruction. In normal times this passion exists in a latent state, it emerges only in unusual circumstances; but it is a comparatively easy task to call it into play and raise it to the power of a collective psychosis."

By:	Albert Einstein (more quotes by Albert Einstein or books by/about Albert Einstein)
	(1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921
Source:	Einstein letter to Sigund Freud, Caputh near Potsdam, 30 July, 1932 https://courier.unesco.org/en/articles/why-war-letter-albert-einstein-sigmund-freud
Categories:	Hatred, Destruction, Collectivism, Power
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