John Paul Lederach | Beyond Intractability

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

- Nelson Mandela

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

- Walter Lippmann

The besetting sin of most clever people is that it is much easier to say clever things than true ones.

- Kenneth Boulding

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity.

- Albert Einstein

It is clear that the way to heal society of its violence...and lack of love is to replace the pyramid of domination with the circle of equality and respect.

- Manitonquat

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

- Booker T. Washington

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

In separateness lies the world's great misery; in compassion lies the world's true strength.

- Siddhartha Gautama

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

- Joan Baez

A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

- Golda Meir

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

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

- Cesar Chavez