Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

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

- James Douglass

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

The only final good is the quality of human life.

- Kenneth Boulding

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt