Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

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

In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.

- Kenneth Boulding

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

- W.H. Beveridge

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

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

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

- John F. Kennedy

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

- General Omar Bradley

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

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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