Of Americans he wrote in 1951: “The populace is easy to lead toward evil, and it doesn't like to have reason preached to it.”

“Reason against passion!” Einstein wrote his friend. “The latter always wins if there's any struggle at all…”

“It's after all a fine thing that our individual life has an end with all its problems and its tension,” he suggested.

Einstein called it “a happy destiny” to be drowned in work up to his final breath; “In the opposite case one would suffer too much from the stupidity and madness of men, which are manifested principally in politics.”