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> [Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/every-nation-state-tends-towards-the-imperial-that-is-the-point/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

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> [Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/every-nation-state-tends-towards-the-imperial-that-is-the-point-2/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

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## Other authors on Civics

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## More by Daniel Berrigan

> [And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/and-their-conviction-is-that-if-it-is-done-with-that-kind-of-purity/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/start-with-the-impossible-proceed-calmly-towards-the-improbable-no/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/one-is-called-to-live-nonviolently-even-if-the-change-one-works-for/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/a-revolution-is-interesting-insofar-as-it-avoids-like-the-plague-the/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/of-course-let-us-have-peace-we-cry-but-at-the-same-time-let-us-have/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/there-is-no-peace-because-the-making-of-peace-is-at-least-as-costly/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/no-principle-is-worth-the-sacrifice-of-a-single-human-being/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/faith-is-rarely-where-your-head-is-at-nor-is-it-where-your-heart-is/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/the-arms-race-is-worse-than-it-ever-was-the-dumping-of-creation-down/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/i-don-t-have-to-prove-my-life-i-just-have-to-live/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [I'd like to die with my boots on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/i-d-like-to-die-with-my-boots-on/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/the-death-of-a-single-human-being-is-too-heavy-a-price-for-the/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/i-think-of-my-brother-just-out-of-prison-again-he-will-have-spent-ten/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [You just have to do what you know is right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/you-just-have-to-do-what-you-know-is-right/)

[Daniel Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-berrigan/)

> [Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-berrigan/because-we-want-the-peace-with-half-a-heart-and-half-a-life-and-will/)

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