Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

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

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

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

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn