Biblio | Beyond Intractability

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

- George Washington

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

- W.H. Beveridge

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

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

- Carl Sandburg

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo