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Daniel Berrigan Quotes

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order Picture Quote #1

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd Picture Quote #1

My father had very little formal education Picture Quote #1

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 Jesuits out of them Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue Picture Quote #1

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people Picture Quote #1

We have one of our priests in prison right now, steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we’re all convicted felons Picture Quote #1

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that Picture Quote #1

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top Picture Quote #1

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake Picture Quote #1

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The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people Picture Quote #1

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I’m not responsible for its going somewhere Picture Quote #1

You just have to do what you know is right Picture Quote #1

You can’t bank on the outcome Picture Quote #1

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being Picture Quote #1

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope Picture Quote #1

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It’s not going to be easy to change things Picture Quote #1

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible Picture Quote #1

I’d like to die with my boots on Picture Quote #1

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped Picture Quote #1

I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live Picture Quote #1

I don’t know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I’m not responsible for its going somewhere Picture Quote #1

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at! Picture Quote #1

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits Picture Quote #1

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 him because we’re all convicted felons Picture Quote #1

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred Picture Quote #1

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I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) My father had very little formal education (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) 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 Jesuits out of them (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) We have one of our priests in prison right now, steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we’re all convicted felons (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake. (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they’re the least remembered people. (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I’m not responsible for its going somewhere. (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) You just have to do what you know is right (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) You can’t bank on the outcome (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) It’s not going to be easy to change things (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) I’d like to die with my boots on (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I’m not responsible for its going somewhere (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) 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 Quotes) Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) 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 him because we’re all convicted felons (Daniel Berrigan Quotes) The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred (Daniel Berrigan Quotes)

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