Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Malcolm X

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

- George Washington