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 be…

- Philip Berrigan

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 …

- Philip Berrigan

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

- Philip Berrigan

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

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…

- Philip Berrigan

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

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 th…

- Philip Berrigan

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

- Philip Berrigan

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, an…

- Philip Berrigan