War Quote by Colman McCarthy Download Open image “Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.” — Colman McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare War
I'm not a pacifist. I do believe that, unfortunately, war is necessary. — Mike Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have a great admiration for pacifism, but I'm not a pacifist, mainly because I would defend myself if I were attacked. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Unless we teach our children peace, somebody else will teach them violence. — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
“People came to our house from far and wide. Party and military bigwigs, some guy known as the “combat commander,” the village headman, and… — Masaji Ishikawa Copy Share Image
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a batter. Love is a war. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The world," said Pavone, "will swing to the left. The whole world except America. The world will swing, not because people read Karl Marx,… — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Five days or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last longer. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
