Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

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

- Aristide Briand

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

- Mark Twain

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

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

- Albert Einstein

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

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

- Mikhail Naim

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles