Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

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

- Alfred Adler

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Thomas Carlyle