Peace Agreements | Beyond Intractability

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

- W.H. Beveridge

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar