Quotes from Colman McCarthy

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

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.

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

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

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

I'd rather teach peace.

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.

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

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

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

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

If peace is what every government says it seeks, and peace is the yearning of every heart, why aren't we studying it and teaching it in schools?

Bush spoke of another principle, that a just war must "support a just cause." In the Persian Gulf, he said, "our cause could not be more noble." What nation has ever said its war was not noble?

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl.

Flacks for both war-obsessed governments immediately blamed the other side for the deaths of the civilians.

I've been accused of teaching a one-sided course, that I don't expose students to the other side, except that my course is the other side—the one that students aren't getting in conventional history or political science courses that present violent militaristic solutions as rational and necessary.

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