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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'd like to die with my boots on.
Daniel Berrigan

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
Daniel Berrigan

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

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

My father had very little formal education.
Daniel Berrigan

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

Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue.
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

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

There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan

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

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
Daniel Berrigan