Biblio | Beyond Intractability

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Luciano de Crescenzo

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- 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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

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

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama