Biblio | Beyond Intractability

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.

- Kenneth Boulding

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

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

- Heinz Pagels

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

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

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

- Leonard Berkowitz

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.

- Helen Keller