Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

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

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

- Malcolm X

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- Cesar Chavez

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Helen Keller

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

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.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

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

- Marcus Aurelius