Quaker Quotes

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

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

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

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

The best recreation is to do good.

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

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

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

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

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

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

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

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

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

NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.

The Quaker upbringing was not strict, but it was frugal. Extremely frugal. One was always encouraged to give away ones worldly goods.

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.

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.

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