Biblio | Beyond Intractability

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

- Gersonides

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

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

- Jeanette Rankin

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous