Biblio | Beyond Intractability

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

- Cesar Chavez

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The point of nonviolence is to build...a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink...a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

- Joan Baez

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy