Sandra Marker | Beyond Intractability

When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.

- Pat Schroeder

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Malcolm X

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

- Malcolm X

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

- Marcus Aurelius

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

- Mark Twain

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

- Albert Einstein

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

- Pope John Paul II

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

- Albert Einstein

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

- William Ralph Inge

Information is the currency of democracy.

- Thomas Jefferson

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

- Anonymous

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

- John F. Kennedy

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead