Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Jonathan Kozol

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

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

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

- Alfred Adler

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding