Biblio | Beyond Intractability

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

- Abraham Lincoln

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir