Biblio | Beyond Intractability

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

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

- Bertrand Russell

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

- Coretta Scott King

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X