Einstein Quote #2

This is a quote from Albert Einstein's book, "Ideas an Opinions." Most people don't think of Einstein as a philosopher, he was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th Century.
Here's the text of the entire quote:
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in fours to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; unprotected spinal marrow was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them! How vile and despicable seems war to me! I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. My opinion of the human race is high enough that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the peoples not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interest acting through the schools and the Press.

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[bart666a]

wow.. they don't teach you this in school!

[nezpercenathan]

Who is doing the voice over? You, Allan? Doesn't sound like Einstein. His quote, either way, I know.