Biblio | Beyond Intractability

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

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

We must improve our talk/do ratio.

- Stewart Brand

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi