Biblio | Beyond Intractability

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

- Nelson Mandela

Nobody was born nonviolent. No one was born charitable. None of us comes to these things by nature but only by conversion. The first duty of the nonviolent community is helping its members...come to conversion.

- Lanza del Vasto

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

- Hannah Arendt

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

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

- Bertrand Russell

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Gersonides

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque