Biblio | Beyond Intractability

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- Cesar Chavez

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

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

- Winston Churchill