Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- Cesar Chavez

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

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

- Thomas Jefferson

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

- Indira Gandhi

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II