Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

It's not going to be easy to change things.

The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.