Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

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

- Susan B. Anthony

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd