31 Quotes by 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.

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

I do believe we should forgive those people who perpetrated 9/11 and ask that they forgive us.

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.

I’d rather teach peace.

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

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

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

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