Biblio | Beyond Intractability

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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.

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus