Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

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

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

- Chinese Proverb

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

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

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

- Albert Einstein

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

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

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

- Havelock Ellis

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake