Biblio | Beyond Intractability

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

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 means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

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

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Helen Keller

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

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

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

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

- Havelock Ellis