Quotes from Daniel Berrigan


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


You can't bank on the outcome.


My father had very little formal education.


Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.


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


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


It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.


Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.


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


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.


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.


The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.


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.


It's not going to be easy to change things.


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.


The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.


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.


You just have to do what you know is right.


I'd like to die with my boots on.


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.