"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids……" — Daniel Berrigan
"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
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36 Quotes by Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan has 36 quotes on this site.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
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Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion…
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and,…
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The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
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If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks,…
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Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose…
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not…
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No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
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I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30…
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More Avoids Quotes
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids…
— Margaret Atwood
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
— Abu Bakr
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A clever general... avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined…
— Sun Tzu
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Still, a prince should make himself feared in such a way that if he does not gain love, he at…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands,…
— Sun Tzu
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The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who on the grounds of decorum and morality avoids the…
— H. L. Mencken
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy.
— Albert Einstein
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Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
— Theodore Parker
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality…
— Arthur Cayley
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For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
— Horace
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It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids.…
— Judy Collins
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