Philip Berrigan Quotes

#1. With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

Cyndi Lauper

#2. If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Uzo Aduba

#3. We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.

Philip Berrigan

#4. Ten masts make not the altitude
Which thou hast perpendicularly fell.
Thy life's a miracle.

William Shakespeare

#5. Lying and war are always associated. Listen closely when you hear a war-maker try to defend his current war: If he moves his lips he's lying.

Philip Berrigan

#6. Our goal was never to create a better taxi.

Logan Green

#7. If you dissent without breaking the law then you are legitimizing the system that allows this kind of latitude. You have to break the law to touch the state.

Philip Berrigan

#8. We must intend to live [the new spiritual awareness], to integrate each increased degree of awareness into our daily routine. It only takes one negative interpretation to stop everything.

James Redfield

#9. The Pentagon is, admissibly, the most powerful institution in history.

Philip Berrigan

#10. Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Aristotle.

#11. Likable leaders truly believe that everyone, regardless of rank or ability, is worth their time and attention. They make everyone feel valuable because they believe that everyone is valuable.

Travis Bradberry

#12. The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

Philip Berrigan

#13. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision

Soren Kierkegaard

#14. Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?

Philip Berrigan

#15. War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

Philip Berrigan

#16. Do not waste time trying to deal with your enemies.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. The only way you can get at the state is by dealing with its laws.

Philip Berrigan

#18. Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.

Vironika Tugaleva

#19. My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#20. The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.

Philip Berrigan

#21. We have military bases all over the world, and that's purely to protect our portfolio abroad.Our investments, and our production, our exploitation of cheap labor and raw materials. We're on the scene to do that, and the military is there to see that it happens.

Philip Berrigan

#22. Nuclear weapons are the scourge of the earth; to mine for them, manufacture them, deploy them, use them, is a curse against God, the human family, and the earth itself.

Philip Berrigan

#23. You have a responsibility to confront the war games - the American killing machine.

Philip Berrigan

#24. If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,

Philip Berrigan