Daniel Berrigan Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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

  Heart, Ass

  157 Copy quote

• If you are going to follow Jesus, you better look good on wood.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Friday, Jesus, Looks

  130 Copy quote

• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better

  Daniel Berrigan

  Inability, Favors, May

  172 Copy quote

• Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Eye, Men

  184 Copy quote

• Of course, let us have peace, we cry, "but at the same time let us have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties ... " There is no peace because there are no peacemakers. 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, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison, and death in its wake.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Ties, Curiosity

  155 Copy quote

• Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Justice, Hatred

  134 Copy quote

• 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

  Attitude, Religion, Permit

  Daniel Berrigan, Nhá̂t Hạnh (Thích) (1975). “The Raft Is Not the Shore: Conversations Toward a Buddhist-Christian Awareness”, Beacon Press (MA)

  28 Copy quote

• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Smart, Widows And Orphans

  113 Copy quote

• 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

  Men, Goodness, Bad Times

  Daniel Berrigan (1972). “America is hard to find”, Doubleday Books

  104 Copy quote

• Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Children, War

  "The activist who saved my life, and other contrarians" by David Byrne, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2016.

  127 Copy quote

• Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Worry, Exit, Impossible

  117 Copy quote

• The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Simple, Hopeful, Offers

  Daniel Berrigan (1988). “Daniel Berrigan: poetry, drama, prose”

  100 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, War, Heart

  Daniel Berrigan (2007). “No Bars to Manhood: A powerful, personal statement on radical confrontation with contemporary society”, p.57, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  83 Copy quote

• One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Peace, Impossible, Seems

  89 Copy quote

• 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

  Peace, Lying, Those Who Lie

  Daniel Berrigan (1996). “Isaiah: Spirit of Courage, Gift of Tears”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

  65 Copy quote

• No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Sacrifice, Principles, Humans

  Daniel Berrigan (1972). “America is hard to find”, Doubleday Books

  66 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Army, Compassion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  23 Copy quote

• 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

  Congratulations, Thinking, Weasels

  "A Conversation with Daniel Berrigan". Interview, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

  79 Copy quote

• You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Struggle, Long, Use

  46 Copy quote

• For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth. . . . In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Friendship, Believe, Fate

  Daniel Berrigan (1980). “We Die Before We Live: Talking with the Very Ill”, Harper San Francisco

  49 Copy quote

• 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.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Military, War, Race

  "A Conversation With Daniel Berrigan". Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

  40 Copy quote

• 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

  Army, Order, Law

  Daniel Berrigan (2009). “The Nightmare of God: The Book of Revelation”, p.22, Wipf and Stock Publishers

  35 Copy quote

• I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Prove

  Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

  32 Copy quote

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

  Daniel Berrigan

  Interesting, Revolution, Heal

  Lee Lockwood, Daniel Berrigan (1972). “Daniel Berrigan: Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes: Conversations After Prison with Lee Lockwood”, New York : Random House

  28 Copy quote

• The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Honesty, Integrity, War

  29 Copy quote

Page 1 of 2

← Prev

1

2

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin