Quotes from Daniel Berrigan

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.

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.

I'd like to die with my boots on.

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

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

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.

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

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

I don't know a more irreligious attitude, one more utterly bankrupt of any human content, than one which permits childred to be destroyed.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.