Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

- Walt Kelly

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

- Mark Twain

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

- Gersonides

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol