Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

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

- Mark Twain

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

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

- Susan B. Anthony

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

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

- Mark Twain

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass