Biblio | Beyond Intractability

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

Mankind will never win lasting peace so long as men use their full resources only in tasks of war. While we are yet at peace, let us mobilize...the moral and spiritual potentialities...which we usually reserve for war.

- John Foster Dulles

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

- Cesar Chavez

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

- Havelock Ellis

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

What good is a house, if you haven't got a decent planet to put it on?

- Henry David Thoreau

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

- Fred Menger

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

- Septima Poinsette Clark

If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

- John F. Kennedy

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

World peace is us... We are each walking agents of the vision of peace we carry inside us.

- Kathleen Vande Kieft

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