Biblio | Beyond Intractability

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

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

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

- Abraham Lincoln

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

- Cesar Chavez

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

- Andre Gide

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

- Henry David Thoreau

Historians are among the major enemies of the human race, interested only in the glorification of war and the despicable concept of national greatness.

- Kenneth Boulding

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

- Vera Brittain

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against -- not with -- the wind.

- Hamilton Mabie

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

- Karl Kraus

There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.

- Cesar Chavez

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein