Philip Berrigan Quotes

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

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.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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