Biblio | Beyond Intractability

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

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.

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

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

- Jonathan Kozol

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.