Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals

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

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

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz