Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Joseph Berrigan, S.J., was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth9 May 1921
CountryUnited States of America
brother thinking years
I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.
army order law
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.
interesting revolution bubonic-plague
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
honesty integrity character
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
teacher people jesuit
The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people
prove
I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
struggle long use
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
peace lying those-who-lie
The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
believe fate hands
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.
sacrifice principles humans
No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.
congratulations thinking traps
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.
peace war heart
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.
men goodness bad-times
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?
simple offers
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.