Robert Gardner | Beyond Intractability

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 means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Steven King

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

- Mark Twain

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

- John F. Kennedy

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Albert Einstein

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius

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

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

- Hermann Hagedorn

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

- Kenneth Boulding

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Therese of Lisieux

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

- Milan Kundera

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

- John F. Kennedy

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

- Marcus Aurelius