Deborah Shmueli | Beyond Intractability

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

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

When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.

- Helder Camara

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

- Dorothy Day

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Hamilton Mabie

There are three truths: my truth, your truth and the truth.

- Chinese Proverb

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

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

We have met the enemy, and he is us.

- Walt Kelly

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

- Mark Twain