Colman McCarthy Quotes & Sayings

Unless we teach our children peace, somebody
else will teach them violence. — Colman McCarthy

Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it. — Colman McCarthy

Give peace a chance, yes, but why not get serious and give it a place in the curriculum: peace courses in every school, every grade, every nation. Unless we teach our children peace, someone else will teach them violence. — Colman McCarthy

Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. — Colman McCarthy

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. — Colman McCarthy

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. — Colman McCarthy

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence. — Colman McCarthy

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble? — Colman McCarthy

Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. — Colman McCarthy

The most revolutionary thing anybody can do is to raise good, honest and generous children who will question the answers of people who say the answer is violence. That's what the schools should be doing. — Colman McCarthy

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours. — Colman McCarthy

The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and a lot harder to hate, where learning nonviolence means that we dedicate our hearts, minds, time, and money to a commitment that the force of love, the force of truth, the force of justice, and the force of organized resistance to corrupt power are seen as sane and the force of fists, guns, armies, and bombs insane. — Colman McCarthy

The failure of love, that's what all laws are really. — Colman McCarthy

It's too easy only to blame the militarists, racists, sexists and other pushers of violence for the mess we're in. What is harder is self-examination, moving beyond caring by looking inward to ask the personal question: What more should I be doing everyday to bring about a peace and justice based world, whether across the ocean or across the living room? — Colman McCarthy

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl. — Colman McCarthy

It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. — Colman McCarthy

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools? — Colman McCarthy

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians. — Colman McCarthy

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace. — Colman McCarthy