Peter Maurin

In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice,…

— Peter Maurin

The world would be better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to…

— Peter Maurin

The world would become better off If people tried to become better. And people would become better If they stopped trying to…

— Peter Maurin

If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone…

— Peter Maurin

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

— Peter Maurin

I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a…

— 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…

— Peter Maurin

The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.

— Peter Maurin

The world would be better off if people tried to become better, And people would become better if they stopped trying to…

— Peter Maurin

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul,…

— Peter Maurin

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

— Peter Maurin

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

— Peter Maurin