Charles (Chip) Hauss | Beyond Intractability

The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. ... Only reverence can restrain violence -- reverence for human life and the environment.

- William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.

- William Shakespeare

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

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.

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Hannah Arendt

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

- David Hume

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

- William E. Gladstone

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

- John F. Kennedy

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and errors, its successes and setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

- Dag Hammarskjold

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

- Moshe Dayan

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

There are only two families in the world, as my grandmother used to say: the haves and the have-nots

- Sancho Panza