63 Quotes by Daniel Berrigan


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    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.

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    One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

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

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    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.

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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.

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    You know, I don’t at all hesitate to be a bit utopian about all this because I think hope is itself an act, a very big leap, which in a sense defies the grim facts always about us and opens up new ways of thinking about things.

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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.

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

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