Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

- Norman Cousins

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

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

- Francis of Assisi

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

- John F. Kennedy

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

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

- Kenneth Boulding

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Helen Keller

We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter and a common discriminator. But once we realize that we have a common enemy, then we can unite--on the basis of what we have in common.

- Malcolm X

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

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

- John F. Kennedy