Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.

- Kenneth Boulding

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky