Biblio | Beyond Intractability

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

Peace is the skillful management of conflict.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Indira Gandhi

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

- Augustine of Hippo

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

- Dante

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

- Hubert H. Humphrey

The man who goes into the world believing that everyone is his enemy will very soon find his suspicions confirmed.

- Kenneth Boulding

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

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

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The weakness of pure individualism is that there are no pure individuals.

- Kenneth Boulding

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

- Thomas Merton

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

- Leo Tolstoy