Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

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

- Vera Brittain

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culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.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

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

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

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

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

- Elise Boulding

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- John F. Kennedy

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

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez