Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed for.

- Chinese Proverb

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

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

- Abraham Lincoln

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Moshe Dayan

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

- Lord Chesterfield

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

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

- Moshe Dayan

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.