Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

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

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

- John F. Kennedy

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

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

- Steve Biko

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

- Theodore Roszak

We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

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

- John Boyes

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous