'Of course, let us have peace,' we cry, 'but at the same time let us
have normalcy, let us lose nothing, let our lives stand intact, let us know
neither prison nor ill repute nor disruption of ties....' There is no peace
because there are no peacemakers. There are no makers of peace because the
making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war--at least as exigent,
at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and
death in its wake. --Daniel Berrigan
Source: No Bars to Manhood
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I have never before seen this statement from Daniel. It's consistent, though, with what Stanley Hauerwas says regarding the cost of peace and why it is only weakly pursued--even by the church and the few within the church who actually pursue it. Berrigan and his friends, however, seem to have counted the cost and figured it was a good investment.
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