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.

Daniel Berrigan

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
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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.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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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.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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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.

  

  Irving Thalberg
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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!

  

  Daniel Boone
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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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• The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.

  

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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've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

  

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• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

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• You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

  

  Pope John Paul II

• Child of the pure, unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.

  

  Lewis Carroll
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• Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire t destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.

  

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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.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Political
  • Peace