Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

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

- Elise Boulding

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

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

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

- Coretta Scott King

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

- Albert Einstein

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

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

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- Indira Gandhi

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

- Steve Biko