Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

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

- Augustine of Hippo

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

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.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

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

- Malcolm X

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge