Colman McCarthy Quotes

• 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

  Children, School, Giving

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• 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

  Peace, Stars, Struggle

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

  Colman McCarthy

  Educación, Paz, Niños

  "Colman McCarthy Is Teaching Peace In America’s Schools". "These Days on KPBS" with Maureen Cavanaugh, www.kpbs.org. April 27, 2010.

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• 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.

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  War, Fighting, Fire

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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 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

  Hate, Heart, Mean

  Colman McCarthy (2002). “I'd Rather Teach Peace”

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• 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?

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  Moving, Ocean, Caring

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

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  Easy, Results, Be Good

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• 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.

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  Golf, May, Pressure

  Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”

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

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  Children, Peaceful, Adults

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

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  Paz, Guerra, Ubuntu

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• 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

  Children, School, People

  "Former reporter pushes peace studies". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

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

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  Oil, America, Addiction

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

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  Peace, Law

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

  Colman McCarthy

  Golf, St Benedict, Forty

  Colman McCarthy (1977). “The pleasures of the game: the theory free guide to golf”

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• I'd rather teach peace.

  Colman McCarthy

  Education, Educational, Literacy

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