Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Augustine of Hippo

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X

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

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

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

- Chinese Proverb

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 fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

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

- Bertrand Russell

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity. It crushes the weak, exalts the unworthy, and bolsters tyranny.

- Charles DeGaulle

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

- Thomas Aquinas

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