Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.

- Robert Lynd

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

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

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

- Leonard Berkowitz

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

- Confucius

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.

- Dorothy Thompson

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Disappointment, failure, and frustration are the main agents of change. Success is a poor teacher, for it usually only confirms us in what we thought we already knew.

- Kenneth Boulding

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice.

- Thomas Jefferson

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi