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

Well, I’ve been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.

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.

No principle is worth the sacrifice of a single human being.

I never met a Jesuit before I applied for the order.

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

We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.