Biblio | Beyond Intractability

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

- African Proverb

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

- Abraham Lincoln

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

- John Boyes

Someday they'll give a war and nobody will come.

- Carl Sandburg

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We do not inherit the earth from our fathers. We borrow it from our children.

- David Bower

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

- Luciano de Crescenzo