Biblio | Beyond Intractability

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- William Ellery Channing

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

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

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

- Moshe Dayan

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

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

- George Orwell

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

- Coretta Scott King

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

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