Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

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

- Albert Einstein

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

- Marian Anderson

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Mikhail Naim

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

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

- Kathleen Vande Kieft