"All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal."
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Albert Einstein, Letter to Heinrich Zangger (Dec 1917), Collected Papers Vol. 8, 412, as cited in Jürgen Neffe, Einstein: A Biography (2007), 256.
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