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… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
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… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to become better… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
“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… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
The world would be better off if people tried to become better, And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual… — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die. — Peter Maurin Copy Share Image
