Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Mikhail Naim

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

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

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

- Carl Sandburg

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

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

- Kenneth Boulding

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela