Daniel Berrigan

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. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#arms #arms race #creation #down #dumping

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#conviction #done #go #going #heart

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#anyway #because #death #horribly #i

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#just #life #live #my life #prove

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#entered #going #i #know #mean

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

— Daniel Berrigan

#before #i #met #never #order

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#brother #i #i think #just #last

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

— Daniel Berrigan

#never #publishing #really #stopped

I'd like to die with my boots on. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#die #i #like

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#heal #insofar #interesting #like #plague