Create Yours

Top 15 Peter Coyote Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Coyote Quote: “Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can’t have a healthy economy, you can’t have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.”

1. “Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can’t have a healthy economy, you can’t have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “I think it’s good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you’ve gone too far.”

2. “I think it’s good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you’ve gone too far.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.”

3. “The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Where I didn’t have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people’s needs, I did a lot of damage.”

4. “Where I didn’t have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people’s needs, I did a lot of damage.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.”

5. “When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking – I can at least provide a way station.”

6. “Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking – I can at least provide a way station.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you’re going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.”

7. “Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you’re going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.”

8. “The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Interdependence is a fact, it’s not an opinion.”

9. “Interdependence is a fact, it’s not an opinion.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “You don’t see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they’re doing, by doing it.”

10. “You don’t see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they’re doing, by doing it.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Money is a way of creating scarcity.”

11. “Money is a way of creating scarcity.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Any political agenda and organization which doesn’t begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It’s just not going to succeed.”

12. “Any political agenda and organization which doesn’t begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It’s just not going to succeed.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.”

13. “Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern.”

14. “I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “I think the ’60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.”

15. “I think the ’60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.”

16. “It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.”

17. “I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.”

18. “Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.”

— Peter Coyote

Peter Coyote Quote: “If success could heal, why do so many celebrity marriages end in divorce and celebrated artists wind up in rehab or the morgue? Why do people with a firm grip on the world’s tail take their own lives or pursue suicidally risky behaviors?”

19. “If success could heal, why do so many celebrity marriages end in divorce and celebrated artists wind up in rehab or the morgue? Why do people with a firm grip on the world’s tail take their own lives or pursue suicidally risky behaviors?”

— Peter Coyote

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 15 Peter Coyote Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.