I wanted to help people. I was raised by Quaker hippies... True happiness comes from helping others, that's what was pounded in… — Greg Jackson Copy Share Image
The Quakers have a saying: "An enemy is one whose story we have not heard." To communicate to post-Christians, I must first… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For when I came into the silent assemblies of God's people I felt a secret power among them which touched my heart;… — Robert Barclay Copy Share Image
My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do, any good kindness that I… — Stephen Grellet Copy Share Image
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Wherefore give all diligence to the Spirit's motion and leadings, what it moves against, and what it leads to; for now will… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
God should be most where man is least: So, where is neither church nor priest, And never rag nor form of creed… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“What did it mean to give aid in a “Quakerly fashion”? How did Quaker ethics shape the Gadabouts’ collective memory of being… — Susan Armstrong-Reid Copy Share Image
I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics;… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those… — Richard Rodney Bennett Copy Share Image
O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I lost my eyes In east wind skies Here's where I've cried Where I've tried Where God and the Tendaberry rise Where… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
In the context of Quaker worship, it is perfectly appropriate for any person in the congregation to speak a timely word from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the "sacredness of human life." We were revolutionaries… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot… — Elise M. Boulding Copy Share Image
Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want… — Jimmy Tingle Copy Share Image
From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Is religion subjective? Nay, its soul is in objectivity, in an Other whose Life is our true life, whose Love is our… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
The way of God was ever hated by the world and the powers thereof. Never heed the rough spirits nor the heavy,… — Francis Howgill Copy Share Image
My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The Quaker did not scream: not when the blood began to come swiftly down his face, not when the force of Elf's… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
Now, Friends, deal plainly with yourselves, and let the eternal Light search you, and try you, for the good of your souls.… — Margaret Fell Copy Share Image
I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two… — Michael Perry Copy Share Image
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
An elegant simplicity is an understated, organic aesthetic that contrasts with the excess of consumerist lifestyles. Drawing from influences ranging from Zen… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“She was opinionated without being pushy. When choosing a book to read aloud, she would try to interest him in those spunky… — Barbara Wright Copy Share Image
![“I don't suggest that the observations are surprising or profound. Rather, they seem to me the merest truisms. I was not aware that [ Michel] Foucault had used the phrase "speaking truth to power." I had thought it was an old Quaker phrase.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd7/noam-chomsky-42_observation_i-don-t-suggest-that-the-observations-ar_1376415.jpg)
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