Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

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

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

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

- Charles Darwin

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- Cesar Chavez

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

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza