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

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

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

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand