Colman McCarthy Quotes
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
Having just been told of the Hiroshima atomic bombing:
The phrase was used without attribution by President Jimmy Carter in his national address on the energy crisis, April 18, 1977
In the play the two characters are a Russian and American disarmament negotiator:
This idea came from Dutch Philosopher Benedict Spinoza. See his quotation from 1677.
Colman McCarthy, an American journalist, teacher, lecturer, pacifist, progressive, an anarchist, and long-time peace activist, directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1997, he wrote columns for The Washington Post. His topics ranged from politics, religion, health, and sports to education, poverty, and peacemaking. Washingtonian magazine called him "the liberal conscience of The Washington Post." Smithsonian magazine said he is "a man of profound spiritual awareness." He has written for The New Yorker, The Nation, The Progressive, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Reader's Digest. Since 1999, he has written biweekly columns for National Catholic Reporter.
