Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat

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

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Dante

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

- Thomas Aquinas

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

- Henry David Thoreau

The first essential characteristics of nonviolent action is that it is creative.

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.

- Max Lucado

I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Confucius

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.