Biblio | Beyond Intractability

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Chinese Proverb

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

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

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.

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

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