Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Chinese Proverb

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Moshe Dayan

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X

The first thing to be disrupted by our commitment to nonviolence will be not the system but our own lives.

- James Douglass

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

- Mark Twain