Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Albert Einstein

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

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

- Havelock Ellis

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Kenneth Boulding

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France