Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- Albert Camus

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

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

- Mikhail Naim

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius