Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Nelson Mandela

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

- Anonymous

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Gersonides

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain