Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

We must improve our talk/do ratio.

- Stewart Brand

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

No one is so foolish as to prefer to peace, war, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

- Croesus

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

- Hannah Arendt

Compromise does not mean cowardice.

- John F. Kennedy

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

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

There is no conflict that cannot be resolved. Violent conflict is created and sustained by human beings, and it can be ended by human beings.

- George Mitchell

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Indira Gandhi