Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Malcolm X

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

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

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

I do admit that the destructive energy is there, but it is evanescent, always futile before the creative, which is permanent.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Joan Baez

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

- Heinz Pagels

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger