Biblio | Beyond Intractability

People try nonviolence for a week and when it doesn't 'work' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.

- Theodore Roszak

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.

- Kenneth Boulding

The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

- Pablo Casals

You can no more win a war than win an earthquake.

- Jeanette Rankin

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

- Kenneth Boulding

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Helen Keller

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

- Helen Keller

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

- Hildegarde Goss-Mayr

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Nelson Mandela

I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

- Bertrand Russell

No man is an island entire of itself ... any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

- John Donne

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King