Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of humans as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

- Helen Keller

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

- Marian Anderson

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

- Plato

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Alfred Adler

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

A crisis is a turning point.

- Anne Lindthorst

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

- Gersonides

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

- Abraham Lincoln

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt