Audio Interviews | Beyond Intractability

In the case of highly complex realities...ignorance, if not bliss, is at least cheap.

- Kenneth Boulding

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

- Marian Anderson

I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

- Mairead Corrigan Maguire

The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.

- Heda Bejar

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

- Albert Einstein

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

- Lynn Johnston

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

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids both rich and poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

- Anatole France

You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

- Malcolm X

If there's this many hungry people there's really something wrong.

- Andy Warhol

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

- John F. Kennedy

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The trouble of half-truths is the other half.

- Kenneth Boulding

The...human race is characterized by efforts to get along much more than by violent disputes, although it's the latter that make the history books. Violence is actually exceptional. The human race has survived because of cooperation.

- Gerard Vanderhaar