Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

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.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain