Colman Mccarthy Quotes

#1. Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

Diana Wynne Jones

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

Colman McCarthy

#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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.

Colman McCarthy

#6. Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.

William James

#7. The United States is much further along because its financial crisis struck three years before Europe's, in 2008, causing headwinds that have pressured it ever since.

Roger Altman

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

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#9. A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as a galactic society.

Seth Shostak

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

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

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

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

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#15. We need a good strong opposition and I don't know whether it's any coincidence that we need Angela Eagle in Labour and we need Theresa May to lead the Conservative party, both of whom of course are women.

Anna Soubry

#16. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.

Saul Leiter

#17. 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?

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#18. 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.

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

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

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#21. And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

Anita Shreve

#22. 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

#23. 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?

Colman McCarthy