Colman McCarthy Quotes

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• 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…
• 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,…
• I'd rather teach peace.
• Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow.
• 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…
• Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.
• 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…
• 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.
• Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it.
• It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult.
• 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,…
• Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.
• 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.
• The failure of love, that's what all laws are really.
• Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

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