Biblio | Beyond Intractability

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

- William E. Gladstone

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

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

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

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

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

- Albert Einstein

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

- Thomas Aquinas

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

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

- George Bernard Shaw