Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

In the ever-evolving society we live in, it is the responsibility of all of us, as individuals and as Americans, to rid ourselves of this culture of violence.

Freedom from militarism will give the German people the opportunity, if they will but seize it, to apply their great energies and abilities to the works of peace.

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.

I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Education is a vacine for violence.

The number of people who believe in stopping violence in the world is wildly greater than those that want to perpetrate it. When everybody has a smartphone, the ability for people to actually do something about violence goes up significantly.

I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

The experience of a lot of us women is that too much money is being spent on militarism and war. We need human security: food, education, health care for our children. We don't want to waste it on wars and militarism. That will be our focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

To me non-violence has come to represent a panacea for all the evils that surround my people, and, therefore, I am devoting all my energies towards the establishment of a society that should be based on its principles of truth and peace.

We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence.

The only way to end a culture of violence is to proactively create a culture of peace.

Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

As you're building a country, you have to be thinking about what works at the ground level. And women have their fingers on the pulse of the community. They know what is critical to have in the treaty to stop the war.

The best answer to the extremists is to build a better world.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

What we need is a generation of peace.