Daniel Berrigan Quotes
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.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
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I should contribute generously to the war chest of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. But, I do not contribute at all.
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Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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'Pears like my heart go flutter, flutter, and then they may say, 'Peace, Peace,' as much as they likes - I know it's goin' to be war!
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
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The fight, this war, this fight against the remnants of terrorism will go on for some time.
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
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There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
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Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
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The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.
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If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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A cow couldn't find its calf in this room.
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The fact was that American enterprise in the twenties had opened its hospitable arms to an exceptional number of promoters, grafters, swindlers, impostors, and frauds.
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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.
