"World peace starts with using your turn signal"

“Forget (about) world peace. Visualize using your turn signal” (also “World peace begins with your turn signal” and “World peace starts with using your turn signal”) is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. Many drivers do not like to use their turn signals.

“Others liked a sticker that says ‘Visualize…Using Your Turn Signal’” was printed in the Denver (CO) Post on July 6, 1993. “Forget about World Peace ... Visualize Using Your Turn Signal!” was printed in The Herald (Jasper, IN) on December 18, 1996. “Bumper sticker of the week: ‘Forget World Peace—Visualize Using Your Turn Signal’” was printed in the Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram on December 21, 1996.

“World peace begins with your turn signal” (shown on a bumper sticker) was posted on Twitter by Zen Cyclist on August 20, 2013. “World Peace starts with using your turn signal” was posted on Twitter by alxrocks on June 14, 2022.

Google Groups: rec.humor
humorous bumper-stickers
Michael Dwyer
Sep 27, 1994, 5:14:26 PM
Okay, you guys have forced me to do it. This is my personal bumpersticker file. Except maybe it isn’t really mine. I stole it from the Denver Post. Anyway, here we go.

The Denver Post
July 6, 1993
Pg F-1

BUMPER STICKER FAVORITES
Don’t look now - your humor’s showing
By Steven Rosen, Denver Post Arts Writer
(...)
O People like bumper stickers that make fun of the cosmic-consciousness nature of New Age philosophy. A good dozen callers said their favorite sticker was “Visualize Whirled Peas,” which is a parody of those “Visualize World Peace” stickers you see in hippie outposts where people only drive cars when not engaged in astral projection. Others liked a sticker that says “Visualize…Using Your Turn Signal,” which serves the same general purpose.

Newspapers.com
17 December 1996, Atlanta (GA) Journal-Constitution, “The Vent,” pg. D2, col. 1:
Forget about world peace. Just use your turn signals.

Newspapers.com
18 December 1996, The Herald (Jasper, IN), “Journalism professor poses some timeless questions” by Roget Simon, pg. 14, col. 5:
“Forget about World Peace ... Visualize Using Your Turn Signal!”

Newspapers.com
21 December 1996, Fort Worth (TX) Star-Telegram, “On the Road” by G. Chambers Williams, sec. E, pg. 7, col. 2:
Bumper sticker of the week: “Forget World Peace—Visualize Using Your Turn Signal.”

Google Groups: ca.driving
Lack of Turn signal use
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Mar 14, 2000, 3:00:00 AM
“Forget world peace—- Visualize using your turn signal!”
-Bumper sticker

Twitter
Carla Ciurlizza
@cciurlizza
Forget about World Peace…Visualize Using Your Turn Signal!
3:37 AM · Jun 14, 2007

Twitter
Michael Carnell
@carnellm
Not mine, but good. Forget about world peace, visualize using your turn signal! http://twurl.nl/p34g72
9:12 PM · Oct 6, 2008

Twitter
Linda M. Lopeke
@smartstartcoach
Forget about world peace, just try using your *$%@ turn signal! :D
12:53 PM · Nov 21, 2008

Twitter
Wayne Mansfield
@WayneMansfield
LOL Time: Forget world peace. Visualize using your turn signal.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
9:46 AM · Dec 23, 2008

Twitter
Vincent Bass
@vincentbass
Bumper Sticker: “Forget about World Peace…Visualize using your turn signal.” #humour
5:56 AM · Apr 30, 2011

Twitter
Zen Cyclist
@zencyclistTO
World peace begins with your turn signal. RT @westannexnews #bikeTO
(A bumper sticker is shown.—ed.)
10:09 AM · Aug 20, 2013

Twitter
Advantage General Insurance Company Limited
@advantagegen
What do you make of this bumper sticker? “Forget World Peace. Visualize Using Your Turn Signal.”
(A car window sticker is shown.—ed.)
6:00 PM · Dec 6, 2014

Facebook
Indian Hills Community Sign
June 23, 2016 at 5:27 PM ·
(The following text is shown on a sign.—ed.)
FORGET
WORLD PEACE
VISUALIZE
USING YOUR TURN
SIGNAL

Twitter
Laura Conrad
@conrad_l
I don’t know if you can read it, but this is the best bumper sticker of the trip back to FL: World Peace Begins With Your Turn Signal
🤣🤣🤣
(A bumper sticker is shown.—ed.)
7:08 PM · Sep 2, 2021

Twitter
cameron
@cameronconcarne
bumper sticker spotted
Forget about World peace,
Visualize using your
turn signal! 🌍
(A bumper sticker is shown.—ed.)
1:03 PM · Sep 20, 2021

Twitter
alxrocks
@alxrocks
World Peace starts with using your turn signal.
10:15 AM · Jun 14, 2022

Reddit—Pics
Posted by u/Greensssss October 14, 2022
Weird starting point but I can see it happening.
(The following text is shown on a bumper sticker.—ed.)
World peace begins
with your turn signal.

Twitter
Mr. Lovejoy
@MrLovejoy1995
World peace starts with using your turn signal.
10:44 PM · Apr 20, 2023

Facebook
im not right in the head.com added a new photo to the album: SIGNS OF BEING NOT RIGHT.
June 2, 2023 at 2:44 PM ·
Shared by Cobra H Rhod
(The following text is shown on a sign.—ed.)
FORGET
WORLD PEACE
VISUALIZE
USING YOUR TURN
SIGNAL