Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

- Lord Chesterfield

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

- Mark Twain

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.

- Albert Einstein

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza