Top 7 Philip Berrigan Quotes (2025 Update)

Philip Berrigan Quote: “The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.”

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

2. “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

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

— Philip Berrigan

4. “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

5. “War can’t end terrorism. War is terrorism.”

— Philip Berrigan

6. “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

7. “I can’t be a man in this society unless I am in opposition to power. So, resistance is always synonymous with humanity.”

— Philip Berrigan

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