Daniel Berrigan Quotes

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men and women with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

When "Do no Evil" has been understood, Then learn the harder, braver rule, "Do Good.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one.

Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.

Goodness shapes our will, and truth shapes our understanding.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that truth is more important than consequences.

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.

The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest — I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value — we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.