Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

- W.H. Beveridge

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

- Albert Camus

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

- Steve Biko

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

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin