Michelle LeBaron | Beyond Intractability

I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

- Nelson Mandela

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

We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary.

- Malcolm X

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

- Malcolm X

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

- George Bernard Shaw

The arms race can kill, though the weapons themselves may never be used...by their cost alone, armaments kill the poor by causing them to starve.

- Vatican statement to the U.N.

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

- General Omar Bradley

We challenge the culture of violence when we ourselves act in the certainty that violence is no longer acceptable, that it's tired and outdated no matter how many cling to it in the stubborn belief that it still works and that it's still valid.

- Gerard Vanderhaar

When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.

- Therese of Lisieux

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves.

- Albert Camus

We must be the change we wish to see.

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

- A.J. Muste

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The ugliest is that man who thinks nothing is worth fighting and dying for and lets men better and braver than himself protect him.

- John Stuart Mill