Top 19 Quaker Quotes - Quoted Daily

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time.

Friends, Quaker

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

Philadelphia, Slavery, Quaker

John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.24, Anza Publishing

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

Brian De Palma

School, Quaker, My Time

I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers

Woody Allen

Inspiration, Quaker, Persons

The best recreation is to do good.

William Penn

Philanthropy, Quaker, Recreation

William Penn (1853). “No Cross, No Crown ...”, p.211

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Lionel Blue

Oxford, Quaker

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do ... let me do it now.

William Penn

Kindness, World, Quaker

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

Kyan Douglas

Cleanliness, Quaker, Bigs

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

A. J. Muste

Giving Up, Life Is, Quaker

If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker.

Albert Einstein

Would Be, Quaker, Jew

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

Men, Religion, Quaker

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.331

As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

Leon Trotsky

Vegetarian, Quaker, Human Life

Leon Trotsky (2014). “The Defence of Terrorism (Routledge Revivals): Terrorism and Communism”, p.60, Routledge

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

Jeremy Grantham

Quaker, Backgrounds, Jeopardy

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

James Reston, Jr.

Hard Work, Instinct, Quaker

Men not living to what they know, cannot blame God, that they know no more.

William Penn

Men, Blame, Quaker

William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.299

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.

Noam Chomsky

Profound, Phrases, Quaker

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