Phil Barker | Beyond Intractability

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

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

- Ammon Hennacy

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

- George Bernard Shaw

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Koddick

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

- John F. Kennedy

It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person's feeling of self worth, even an opponent's. We all need, constantly, an advance of trust and affirmation.

- Bernard Haring

I have invented something which...I have been calling "Senesh's Law" -- That if you can't teach it to the second grade it probably isn't true.

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- A.J. Muste

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.

- Anonymous

Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.

- Mikhail Naim

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

- Joan Baez

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.

- Aristide Briand