61. On
Reporters
[10 August 1921]
Translation from
Einstein,
Ideas
and
Opinions,
trans.
Sonja
Bargmann (New
York:
Crown, 1982).
[p 1]
INTERVIEWERS
Mein Weltbild, Amsterdam:
Querido
Verlag,
1934.
To be called
to
account publicly
for
everything
one
has said,
even
in
jest,
in
an excess
of
high spirits
or
in
momentary
anger,
may possibly
be
awkward,
yet up to
a
point
it
is reasonable
and
natural. But
to
be called
to
account publicly
for what others
have said in one’s
name,
when
one
cannot
defend
oneself,
is
indeed
a
sad
predicament.
“But
to
whom does such
a
thing