Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

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

- Lord Chesterfield

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

- 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

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Nelson Mandela

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

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

- Nelson Mandela

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume