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 More Quotes by Colman McCarthy More Quotes From 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. Colman McCarthy giving children school 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 stars struggle peace Unless we teach our children peace, somebody Colman McCarthy education peace children 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. Colman McCarthy fighting fire war 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? Colman McCarthy ocean caring moving 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 Peace is the result of love, and if love were easy we'd all be good at it. Colman McCarthy be-good results easy Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes. Colman McCarthy addiction oil america Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago. Colman McCarthy ubuntu war peace It's better to build a peaceful child than re-build a violent adult. Colman McCarthy peaceful adults children 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 people school I'd rather teach peace. Colman McCarthy literacy educational education The failure of love, that's what all laws are really. Colman McCarthy law peace Forty-one rules aren't so many - St. Benedict had 73 to keep the brethren on the straight and narrow. Colman McCarthy st-benedict forty golf Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. Colman McCarthy everyone being like vegetarian
