Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- George Orwell

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

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

- George Orwell

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh