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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President Obama has a strong record of doing what is best for America and Florida, and he built it by spending more time worrying about what his decisions would mean for the people than for his political fortunes.
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Kat and Kropp get in an argument over the war as they rest from an hour’s worth of drill (occasioned by Tjaden’s not saluting a major properly). Kat believes the war would be over if leaders gave all the participants “the same grub and the same pay,” as he says in a rhyme. Kropp believes the leaders of each country should fight each other in an arena to settle the war; the “wrong” people currently do the fighting.
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Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred copies at their concerts.
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People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
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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.
