Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

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

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

- John F. Kennedy

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

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

- John F. Kennedy

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

- Gerard Vanderhaar