Biblio | Beyond Intractability

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

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

- Marcus Aurelius

We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause... If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence.

- Cesar Chavez

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

- Walt Kelly

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Steve Biko

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.