Daniel Berrigan Quotes
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.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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I like music a lot.
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Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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Yoga is the one L.A. thing I actually like.
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I have often wondered what it is an old building can do to you when you happen to know a little about things that went on long ago in that building.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
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Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
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You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
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I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
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America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.
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I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.
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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.
