Peace Quotes by Colman McCarthy

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

— Colman McCarthy

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

— Colman McCarthy

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Colman McCarthy

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

— 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…

— Colman McCarthy

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

— Colman McCarthy

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Colman McCarthy

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

— Colman McCarthy

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

— 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…

— Colman McCarthy