Biblio | Beyond Intractability

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

- Marian Anderson

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

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

- Chinese Proverb

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

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

- Nelson Mandela