Biblio | Beyond Intractability

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

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

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X