Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.

- Kenneth Boulding

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

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

- Helen Keller

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick