Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Helen Keller

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

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

- Pablo Casals

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

- David Bower

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb