Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

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

- A.J. Muste

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

- John F. Kennedy

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.

- Kenneth Boulding

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

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