Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Mikhail Naim

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

- Marian Anderson

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding