Mairead Corrigan Maguire Quotes

We have agreed that peace can be achieved with the removal of the occupation and the end of aggression.

War's Legitimate Object Is More Perfect Peace.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

You can’t have peace without a war.

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War is not inevitable, however persistent it is, however long a history it has in human affairs. It does not come out of some instinctive human need. It is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort--by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion--to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war.

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

I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.

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.

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies.

If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, it can become abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless.

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.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

We know how to win wars. We must learn now to win peace.

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

We have thought of peace as the passive and war as the active way of living. The opposite is true. War is not the most strenuous life. It is a kind of rest-cure compared to the task of reconciling our differences.

He who relies solely on warlike measures shall be exterminated; he who relies solely on peaceful measures shall perish.

I have to believe in the possibility of peace, because the alternative is to accept the inevitability of continual war, and of always living in fear. It doesn't have to be that way. However, there are no simple solutions, and I am not the possessor of a magic formula for peace. All I can say is that for peace to succeed it requires perseverance, patience, humility, compromise, and commitment, from all parties.

There come times when we have to fight for peace.

You must fight others, but through peace, and through dialogue, and through education.

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.

We have to start from the fact that there are always alternatives to violence.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.