Biblio | Beyond Intractability

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Helen Keller

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.

- Lee Ducat

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

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

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

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

- Vera Brittain

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson