Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

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

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

- Theodore Roszak

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

- Golda Meir

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

- Jonathan Kozol

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

- Susan B. Anthony

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt