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“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
#Lying #Tyrants #People
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“War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.”
-- Philip Berrigan
#War #Terrorism #Ends
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“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
#Christian #Real #Mean
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“The church is a major bureaucracy, and major bureaucracies are disobedient to the gospel.”
-- Philip Berrigan
#Church #Bureaucracy
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“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
#War #Lying #Moving
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“The use of depleted uranium in the Gulf War has been particularly effective. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.' - HAROLD PINTER A $19 trillion price tag since 1940 for past, present, and future wars reveals our addiction to war and bloodshed.”
-- Philip Berrigan
#Baby #War #Eye
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“If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,”
-- Philip Berrigan
#Differences #Voting #Would Be
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“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
#Use #Earth #Weapons
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