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> [The future will be different if we make the present different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-future-will-be-different-if-we-make-the-present-different/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

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## More by Peter Maurin

> [In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/in-the-first-centuries-of-christianity-the-hungry-were-fed-at-a/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-world-would-be-better-off-if-people-tried-to-become-better-and/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-world-would-become-better-off-if-people-tried-to-become-better/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/if-we-are-crazy-then-it-is-because-we-refuse-to-be-crazy-in-the-same/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [The future will be different if we make the present different.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-future-will-be-different-if-we-make-the-present-different/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/i-want-a-change-and-a-radical-change-i-want-a-change-from-an/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/modern-society-calls-the-beggar-bum-and-panhandler-and-gives-him-the/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-scholars-must-become-workers-so-the-workers-may-be-scholars/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [The world would be better off if people tried to become better, And people would become better if they stopped trying to be better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-world-would-be-better-off-if-people-tried-to-become-better-and-2/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/in-the-catholic-worker-we-must-try-to-have-the-voluntary-poverty-of/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/the-coat-that-hangs-in-your-closet-belongs-to-the-poor/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

> [What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-maurin/what-we-give-to-the-poor-for-christ-s-sake-is-what-we-carry-with-us/)

[Peter Maurin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-maurin/)

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