Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Indira Gandhi

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

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

- Nelson Mandela

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

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

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding