Daniel Berrigan Quotes

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• The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the…
• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946,…
• Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death…
• The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
• If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and…
• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand…
• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the…
• No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
• I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
• I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
• The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people
• Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make…
• The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
• For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith…
• Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
• It's not going to be easy to change things.
• We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit…

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