Reprint / Republication Inquiry | Beyond Intractability

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

- George Washington

Hatred injures the hater as well as the hated. Love blesses the lover as well as the loved. This is hard economics as well as good common sense.

- Kenneth Boulding

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

- Therese of Lisieux

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

- Dave Dellinger

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

While seeking revenge, dig two graves -- one for yourself.

- Doug Horton

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

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

- Isaiah 2:4

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

- Winston Churchill

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength?

- Barbara Deming

Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity.

- Jane Meyerding

Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

- Albert Einstein