Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Helen Keller

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

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

- George Orwell

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

- Frank Kent

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez