9+ Peter Maurin Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Peter Maurin quotes and sayings.

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off. For when everybody tries to become better off, nobody is better off. But when everybody tries to become better, everybody is 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

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. — Peter Maurin

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict. — Peter Maurin

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

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

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars. — Peter Maurin

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

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