Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

- William Blake

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

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

- George Bernard Shaw

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

- Albert Einstein

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- James Douglass

Peace begins when the hungry are fed.

- Anonymous

You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.

- Rwandan Proverb

The finger pulls the trigger, but the trigger may also be pulling the finger.

- Leonard Berkowitz

The longer we listen to one another -- with real attention -- the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if we are careful to exchange with one another life stories and not simply opinions.

- Barbara Deming

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

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.

Peace is an environment where conflicts are resolved without violence, where people are free, not exploited, living so they can grow to their full potential.

- Gerard Vanderhaar