Biblio | Beyond Intractability

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

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 means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Chinese Proverb