Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Thomas Carlyle

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

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

- Albert Einstein