Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

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

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez