Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Marcus Aurelius

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

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

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

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

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

- Colleen C. Barrett

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn