Quakers Quotes
18 quotes by 17 authors
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
— Lionel Blue
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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
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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
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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
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Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
— Kyan Douglas
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That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in…
— William Penn
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I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers
— Woody Allen
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As the Quakers say, "When you pray, move your feet."
— Eric Butterworth
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
— Ezra Pound
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those…
— Bonnie Raitt
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Look at the Quakers - they were excellent business people that never lied, never stole; they cared for their employees and the community which gave…
— Anita Roddick
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Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.
— Harriet Tubman
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Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in…
— Thomas Paine
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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to…
— Bayard Rustin
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony…
— Edward Rutherfurd
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Quakers are terrific.
— Ian Mckellen
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Should slavery be abolished there, (and it is an event, which, from these circumstances, we may reasonably expect to be produced in time) let it…
— Thomas Clarkson
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Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history, because it was…
— Geraldine Brooks
Who Wrote These Quakers Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 18 Quakers Quotes as follows: