Biblio | Beyond Intractability

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Elise Boulding

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

- Thomas Mann

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

- Elise Boulding

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

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

- Croesus

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

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 only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding