Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

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

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

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

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela