Lisa Irvin | Beyond Intractability

Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

- Bertrand Russell

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

- Jonathan Kozol

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

- Martin Luther

If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "No" to war. For one does not create human society on mounds of corpses.

- Louis Lecoin

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Cesar Chavez

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

- Charles de Foucauld

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein

The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America, too.

- Hermann Hagedorn

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

- Eleanor Roosevelt

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

- Albert Einstein