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Einstein's politics can best be described by this passage from Rowe and Schulmann's Einstein on Politics, 458: "Einstein shunned ideologues, whether on the left or the right. By the same token, he had the deepest sympathy for all those who spoke out against tyranny and in favor of human freedom. Indeed, for the last twenty-five years of his life he was an indefatigable advocate of civil liberties and a staunch defender of those who put their lives in jeopardy to advance human rights."
*I have no intention of making a secret of my inter-nationalist sentiments. How close I feel to a human being or a human organization depends only on how I judge their intentions and capabilities. The state, to which I as a citizen belong, has no place at all in my emotional life; I consider affiliation with a state to be a business matter, somewhat akin to one's relationship to life insurance.