Biblio | Beyond Intractability

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X

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

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

- Thomas Edison

The point of nonviolence is to build...a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink...a few feet above napalm, torture, exploitation, poison gas, A and H bombs, the works. Give man a decent place to stand.

- Joan Baez

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

- Albert Einstein

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

Let all bear in mind that a society is judged not so much by the standards attained by its more affluent and privileged members as by the quality of life which it is able to assure for its weakest members.

- H.E. Javier Perez de Cuellar

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

- Hannah Arendt

If we divide reality into two camps the violent and the nonviolent and stand in one camp while attacking the other, the world will never have peace.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

Just two U.S. Poseidon submarines which carry 320 nuclear weapons can destroy all the 200 major Soviet cities with the destructive potential of 1,000 Hiroshima size weapons.

- Rear Admiral Gene R. LaRocque

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower