| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 18589 |
| QUOTATION: | If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born U.S. theoretical physicist. Out of My Later Years, ch. 7 (1950). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Einstein Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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