Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

We must improve our talk/do ratio.

- Stewart Brand

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

- Frank Kent

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.