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Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Joseph Berrigan SJ (May 9, 1921 – April 30, 2016) was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, and poet.

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Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

Actors, Advisor, Documentaries, Hired, Make, Trying

You just have to do what you know is right.

Know, Knows, Right

The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

Corpses, Protect, Smart, Transform, War, Widows And Orphans

I'd like to die with my boots on.

Boots, Die, Dies, Like

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

Creation, Dumping, Earth, Military, Race, War

But how shall we educate men to goodness, to a sense of one another, to a love of truth? And more urgently, how shall we do this in a bad time?

Men, Goodness, Bad Times, Urgently, Sense

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Army, Jail, Laws, Order, Police, Virtue

Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total - but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

Heart, Nature, Peace, War

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

Jesuit, Know, People, Remembered, Teacher

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

Honesty, Human, Integrity, Price, Sacred, War

You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.

Long, Stay, Struggle, Use

I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

Publishing, Stopped

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?

Children, Fracture, Instead, Paper, Peace, War

Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

Absurd, Agree, Theatre

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

Army, Compassion, Corporate, Expect, Make, War

It's not going to be easy to change things.

Change, Easy, Things, Things Change

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.

Community, Convicted, Felons, Right, Three

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

Exit, Exits, Impossible, Proceed, Worry

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

Jesuit, Met, Mets, Order

You can't bank on the outcome.

Bank, Outcome, Outcomes

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