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There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
— Daniel Berrigan
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
— Daniel Berrigan
The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.
— Philip Berrigan
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
— Daniel Berrigan
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
— Daniel Berrigan
Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
— Daniel Berrigan
I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.
— Daniel Berrigan
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.
— Daniel Berrigan
If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.
— Daniel Berrigan
You just have to do what you know is right.
— Daniel Berrigan
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
— Daniel Berrigan
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
— Daniel Berrigan
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
Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.
— Daniel Berrigan
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
— Daniel Berrigan
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
— Daniel Berrigan
You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.
— Philip Berrigan
My father had very little formal education.
— Daniel Berrigan
I'd like to die with my boots on.
— Daniel Berrigan
You can't bank on the outcome.
— Daniel Berrigan
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 trap.
— Daniel Berrigan
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
— Daniel Berrigan
Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
— Daniel Berrigan
It's not going to be easy to change things.
— Daniel Berrigan
I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.
— Daniel Berrigan
The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.
— Philip Berrigan
I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
— Daniel Berrigan
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 he's lying.
— Philip Berrigan
Never be born, never be died.
— Ted Berrigan
War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.
— Philip Berrigan
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
— Daniel Berrigan
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
Whatever is going to happen is already happening.
— Ted Berrigan
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
— Daniel Berrigan
If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,
— Philip Berrigan
But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?
— Daniel Berrigan
The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.
— Philip Berrigan