Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

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

- Gersonides

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

- Helen Keller

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

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

- Golda Meir

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

- William Ellery Channing

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler