Biblio | Beyond Intractability

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

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

- Anita Koddick

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

- Colleen C. Barrett

People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

- Theodore Roszak

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak...Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.

- Cesar Chavez

The miracle of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

- Winston Churchill

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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