Mairead Corrigan Quotes

#1. I support this proposal and agree with this great and important initiative to abolish militarism and war. I will continue to speak out for an end to the institution of militarism and war and for institutions built on international law and human rights and nonviolent conflict resolution.

Mairead Corrigan

#2. The unfinished is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#3. I don't care how happily married you are or how deeply enmeshed you are with your children and family and career
every woman needs a couple of chicks who'll break out the sangria just because you need to vent.

Jen Lancaster

#4. We need radical thinking, creative ideas, and imagination.

Mairead Corrigan

#5. I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence.

Mairead Corrigan

#6. Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.

Mairead Corrigan

#8. You, my dear, are a stupid ho.

Belle Aurora

#9. Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

Mairead Corrigan

#10. I believe that hope for the future depends on each of us taking nonviolence into our hearts and minds and developing new and imaginative structures which are nonviolent and life-giving for all.

Mairead Corrigan

#11. We are all invited to work together for peace. We shall join hands and minds to work for peace through active nonviolence. We shall help one another, encourage one another and learn from one another how to bring peace to our children and to all.

Mairead Corrigan

#12. Sudden, hell. I've been hard for two months.

Linda Howard

#13. Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

Joan Rivers

#14. One great hope lies in the fact that there is a new consciousness in our World, particularly among young people.

Mairead Corrigan

#15. But the city makes up for its hazards and its deficiencies by supplying its citizens with massive doses of a supplementary vitamin-the sense of belonging to something unique, cosmopolitan, mighty and unparalleled ...

E.B. White

#16. We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons

Mairead Corrigan

#17. Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I'm entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.

Judy Reyes

#18. Be risky at work. Be safe with your investments.

Robert Herjavec

#19. Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to love our enemies.

Mairead Corrigan

#20. Everywhere in these days men have, in their mockery, ceased to understand that the true security is to be found in social solidarity rather than in isolated individual effort.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. Man is a marvelous curiosity ... he thinks he is the Creator's pet ... he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea?

Mark Twain

#22. Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

Mairead Corrigan

#23. We can rejoice and celebrate today because we are living in a miraculous time. Everything is changing and everything is possible.

Mairead Corrigan

#24. I believe we are on the edge of a quantum leap into a whole new way of organizing and living as a human family.

Mairead Corrigan

#25. I tell you, that switch from B.C. to A.D. must have driven people nuts. I bet more than a few Israelites missed their dental appointments.

Tom Robbins

#26. We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.

Mairead Corrigan

#27. We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.

Mairead Corrigan

#28. It's okay to be scared, but fear is different. Fear is when we let being scared prevent us from doing what love requires of us.

Mairead Corrigan