Daniel Berrigan Quotes
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.
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The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.
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I'm pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don't stop - literally, all day.
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As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
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The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.
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Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war?
