Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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.

Those for whom peace is no more than a dream are asleep to the future.

- Jack DuVall

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

- Walt Kelly

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

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

- William Shakespeare

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz