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… — 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, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. — 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 all my… — Daniel Berrigan 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
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn… — 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
Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives… — 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 as exigent,… — Daniel Berrigan 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 at! — Daniel Berrigan 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 ever was,… — Daniel Berrigan 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 Copy Share Image
