Shakers Quotes

“You can't kill the Devil with a sword.”
― Ann Lee

“The rigidity of religious practitioners is exactly like the rigidity of the muscles that Reichian therapists encounter in the bodies of those people who have had their emotions repressed by their parents, society, trauma, and other factors. Why do you think that the Christian Revivalist movements in which people shake (The Shakers), quake (The Quakers), and generally shout and roll around on the floor in all sorts of gyrating movements (Christian Evangelical Revivalist Meetings), are so popular?”
― Laurence Galian, 666: Connection with Crowley

“Come life, Shaker life,
Come life eternal;
Shake, shake out of me
All that is carnal.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways-a Journey Into America