Biblio | Beyond Intractability

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

The price of greatness is responsibility.

- Winston Churchill

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

Legitimacy is like the air we breathe; we only notice it when it is not there.

- Kenneth Boulding

The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.

- Frank Kent

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

- J. K. Galbraith

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must improve our talk/do ratio.

- Stewart Brand

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

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

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

- Confucius

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

- Desmond Tutu