"It is probably this dual code of morals which underlies the break in... many leading politicians who begin their political efforts with the desire to improve the lot of their fellow men. Once they reach the top they tend to exchange their individual code of morals for the collective one... to serve abstract ideas, which have little to do with their people's well being, and they make war."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
BiochemistsPeople from BudapestAcademics from HungaryNobel laureates in Physiology or MedicinePoliticians from Hungary
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Szent-Gy%C3%B6rgyi
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Albert Szent-Györgyi
24 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Albert Szent-Györgyi →
Related Quotes
"[When I joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton] I did this in the hope that by rubbing elbows with thos…"
"When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The …"
"If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human sufferin…"
"Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought."
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different."
"Life is water, dancing to the tune of macro molecules."
"I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God i…"
"Collective human suffering easily becomes an abstraction... being unable to multiply death or suffering by 100,000. T…"
"From on high a human life must look very small, a notion that moved Walt Whitman to sing about the arrogance and auda…"
"Mi è impossibile cingere i fianchi di una ragazza con il mio braccio destro e serrare il suo sorriso nella mia mano s…"