Biblio | Beyond Intractability

We are going to have to find ways of organizing ourselves cooperatively, sanely, scientifically, harmonically and in regenerative spontaneity with the rest of humanity around the earth.

- Buckminster Fuller

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nonviolence which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.

- Albert Einstein

The people who burned witches at the stake never...thought of their act as violence...[but rather] as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.

- Gil Bailie

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

- Oscar Arias

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

- General Omar Bradley

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

- Elise Boulding

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

I'm not really interested in persuading people, I don't want to and I try to make this point obvious. What I'd like to do is to help people persuade themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

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

- Augustine of Hippo