Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

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

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- John Boyes

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill