If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian,… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial… — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws. — Philip Berrigan Copy Share Image
![“[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be a Christian, you try to come from that tradition of the Jewish prophets and then Christ and everything since. That becomes your handbook. "Witness" is the key word. You witness against the injustice…” quote by Philip Berrigan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10f/philip-berrigan-32591_atrocities_to-break-the-law-would-still-be-an-imper_1352309.jpg)
