Biblio | Beyond Intractability

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

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.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

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

- Milan Kundera

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt