Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- A.J. Muste

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- William Ellery Channing

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

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

- William Ellery Channing

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

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

- Lord Chesterfield

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi