Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

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

- Havelock Ellis

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

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

- Golda Meir

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

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Leonard Berkowitz

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

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

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold