Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- George Orwell

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

- Chinese Proverb

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

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

- Abraham Lincoln

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

- Cesar Chavez

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy