tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919220800578353201.post4245658602851629783..comments2023-10-07T09:12:36.644-06:00Comments on Escape to Infinity: Photo of the Week #26Kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01420068288649395701noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6919220800578353201.post-78539774678823545652009-07-03T13:04:15.360-06:002009-07-03T13:04:15.360-06:00Here's a quote from Einstein that seems to tie...Here's a quote from Einstein that seems to tie in with your Jefferson quote:<br /><br />"I am convinced that demonstrative reference to armaments are but a weapon in the hands of the factors interested in their production or in the maintenance and development of a military system for financial or political--egotistic--reasons.<br /><br />I am firmly of the opinion that the educational effect of a first and genuine achievement in the realm of the first and genuine achievement in the realm of disarmament would prove highly efficacious, because the succeeding second and third steps would then be immeasurably simpler than the initial one; this for the obvious reason that the first results of an understanding would considerable weaken the familiar argument for national security with which parliamentarians of all countries now permit themselves to be intimidated.<br /><br />Armaments can never be viewed as an economic asset to a state. They must ever remain the unproductive exploitation of men and material and an encroachment on the economic reserves of a state through the temporary conscription of men in the active periods of their lives--not to mention the moral impairment resulting from a preoccupation with the profession of war and the moral processes of preparing a nation for it."<br /><br />Best,<br />StephanieStephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07625150117096497285noreply@blogger.com