Fighting Quotes
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."— Albert Einstein
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Meaning of this quote
A future global war could destroy technological civilization so thoroughly that surviving conflict returns to primitive weapons. The joke carries a warning about catastrophic war.
Key takeaway:
Recognize the destructive stakes of modern warfare.
Origin of the quote
Reported in Alfred Werner’s Einstein interview, Liberal Judaism, April–May 1949.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe interview is a documented attribution; the line also circulates with minor differences in its opening. It does not establish the first inventor of the idea.
