Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The soul of our country needs to be awakened... When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders.

- Veterans Fast for Life

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it.

- Mark Twain

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Pablo Casals

The first principle of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.

- Cesar Chavez

I expect to pass through this world but once, therefore any good that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not come this way again.

- Stephen Grellett

A solid rock is not disturbed by the wind; even so, a wise person is not agitated by praise or blame.

- Dhammapada

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

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