Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"I'm really a timid person - I was beaten up by Quakers"
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Quaker
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Albert Einstein
Physicist
"If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker."
Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life."
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, Philosopher, Activist
"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."
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