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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin

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

- Peter Maurin