Peter Maurin > Quotes

“Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods”
― Peter Maurin

“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.”
― Peter Maurin

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

“It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.”
― Peter Maurin

“People who don't think, act and people who act, don't think.”
― Peter Maurin