Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

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

- Helen Keller

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

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

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Albert Einstein

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau