Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Empathy is the biggest negotiation tool. I must try to understand where the other person's coming from to make points for my side.

- Lee Ducat

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

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

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

Being a pacifist between wars is as easy as being a vegetarian between meals.

- Ammon Hennacy

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat

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

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

If you want peace, work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Albert Einstein