Quotes by Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

Heal

Interesting

Revolution

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total – but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Heart

Peace

War

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?

Bad Times

Goodness

Men

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.

Army

Law

Order

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. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

Army

Compassion

War

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

Ass

Heart

I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live.

Prove

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

Jesuit

Mets

Order

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Brother

Thinking

Years

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Publishing

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Army

Ass

Bad Times

Boots

Brother

Children

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Dies

Easy

Favors

Friday

Goodness

Hatred

Heal

Heart

Hopeful

Impossible

Inability

Interesting

Jesuit

Jesus

Justice

Law

Long

Looks

Makers

May

Men

Mets

Offers

Order

Outcomes

Peace

People

Prove

Publishing

Revolution

Seems

Simple

Smart

Struggle

Teacher

Theatre

Things Change

Thinking

Use

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Quotes by Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total – but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

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?

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.

Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ass is at!

I don’t have to prove my life. I just have to live.

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.

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

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