Biblio | Beyond Intractability

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Abraham Lincoln

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius