Philip Berrigan

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill…

— Philip Berrigan

Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against…

— Philip Berrigan

Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money,…

— Philip Berrigan

The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are…

— Philip Berrigan

You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

— Philip Berrigan

[ To break the law] would still be an imperative. I guess we do it for both reasons. You try to be…

— Philip Berrigan

Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves…

— Philip Berrigan

The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

— Philip Berrigan

The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

— Philip Berrigan

We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise…

— Philip Berrigan

The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

— Philip Berrigan

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

— Philip Berrigan

If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to…

— Philip Berrigan

We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation…

— Philip Berrigan

If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,

— Philip Berrigan