Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes

You'll get more from being a peacemaker than a warrior.

The alternative is not war or doing nothing. Whoever rejects war is not doomed to appeasement.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

It is our duty to persuade the nations of the world, in whatever way that we can, to settle their differences in some other way. (Other than war)

Those who were not taught to fight, have naturally inclined in favor of any other mode of settling differences rather than that of fighting.

Peace is the alternative to war, and nonviolence should be seen as the antidote to violence, not simply as its opposite. Nonviolence is more concerned with saving life than with saving face.

I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace.

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems than killing everybody who doesn’t agree? Is that the limit of human intelligence?

Anything war can do, peace can do better.

I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

The U.S. generally wants to solve problems with coercion. That's kind of the default way the American state wants to try to solve problems. So there are many parallels between that: mass incarceration, mass surveillance, and militarism.

Ask for peace first, and you will clearly see your next step.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I don't like to fight.

Violence is my last option.

Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.

I am certain that we need a solution completely separate from military intervention.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.