Olympio Barbanti, Jr. | Beyond Intractability

I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war.

- Ammon Hennacy

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

- Bertrand Russell

The infusion of a sense of righteousness into the common urge to bash things around has always proved to be a powerful stimulus to action.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Bertrand Russell

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Kenneth Boulding

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

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

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

- Hermann Hagedorn

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.

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

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

- Elie Weisel