I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison. — Daniel Berrigan Brother Copy Share Image
I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when… — Daniel Berrigan Death Copy Share Image
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue. — Daniel Berrigan Connections Copy Share Image
Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being. — Daniel Berrigan Human beings Copy Share Image
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred. — Daniel Berrigan Antiwar Copy Share Image
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits. — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the… — Daniel Berrigan Actions Copy Share Image
The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Army Copy Share Image
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war -… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives.… — Daniel Berrigan Bread Copy Share Image
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible… — Daniel Berrigan Change Copy Share Image
The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than… — Daniel Berrigan Bombs Copy Share Image
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance… — Daniel Berrigan Belief Copy Share Image
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before… — Daniel Berrigan Apology Copy Share Image
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
“War -- is a last ditch moral nightmare. People begin worshiping a mysterious slouching beast, following after, bowing down, offering gifts, making… — Daniel Berrigan Civic virtue Copy Share Image
Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes,… — Daniel Berrigan Appetite Copy Share Image
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. — Daniel Berrigan Change Copy Share Image
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can. — Daniel Berrigan Alive Copy Share Image
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd. — Daniel Berrigan Absurd Copy Share Image
If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood. — Daniel Berrigan Friday Copy Share Image
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped. — Daniel Berrigan Publishing Copy Share Image
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently,… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
