Quaker Quotes

69 Quaker quotes by 51 unique authors

On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of… — John James Audubon
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. — Lionel Blue
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker. — Woody Allen
As a lifelong pacifist, Quaker, and a gay man, I despair that gays and lesbians are expending energy trying to get into the military when… — Ned Rorem
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated… — Anita Roddick
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that… — Thomas Jefferson
For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may… — John F. Kennedy
However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years — Brian De Palma
I come of Quaker stock. My ancestors were persecuted for their beliefs. Here they sought and found religious freedom. By blood and conviction I stand… — Herbert Hoover
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed in polygamy; that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
The Meeting is actually like the Gunpowder Meeting, or some of the earlier American Quaker MeetingsThe long house form is something that was traditionthat's what… — James Turrell
However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school. — Brian De Palma
I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after… — Elizabeth Fry
Congress, our leaders, voted against a proposal to have a national seven day waiting period to buy a gun. I don't want to sound like… — Unknown Author
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made… — Thomas Hood
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
I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which… — Richard Rodney Bennett
All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman, in Buddhism the pure Buddha-Mind. Christ said, 'the kingdom of… — Ram Dass
Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness. — Kyan Douglas
And if you love the light, then you come to the light to be proved, and tried whether your works be wrought in God. But… — Margaret Fell
The love of God again makes us free, for it draws us to set a low value on those things wherein we are subject to… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by… — William Penn
Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every… — John Woolman
But as there is a keeping back, and quietly waiting, and a keeping out of willing or running, and haste, the spirit arises purely and… — Francis Howgill

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51 authors contributed a total of 69 Quaker Quotes, led by these top contributors: