Biblio | Beyond Intractability

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.

- Kenneth Boulding

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller