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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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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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.
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I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
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The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
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The only rule I have is to quit while it’s still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it’s going good. Then it’s easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you’ll get into a dead spell and you’ll have trouble with it.
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The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.
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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.
