Peter Maurin Quotes

If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.

The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better off.

What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.

The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

The future will be different if we make the present different.

It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.