That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
They tell a woman to treat her man like a king but why treat a man like a king when he only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All men are by nature equal, and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty… — Plato Copy Share Image
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking… — Dorothy Stang Copy Share Image
My parents came from working-class, small-peasant, farm-labourer backgrounds and had made the grade during the fascist years; my father came out of… — W. G. Sebald Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
“All men are by nature equal, made of the same earth by one workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto… — Elizabeth Hunter Copy Share Image
“After we passed a few more houses, the street ceased to mantain any pretense of urbanity, like a man returning to his… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
“Now this peasant came petition him an eighth time; he said: “0 high steward, my lord! Men fall low through greed. The… — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
“Perhaps J. P. Morgan did as a child have very severe feelings of inadequacy, perhaps his father did believe that he would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant,… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“The game’s rules were Byzantine, and we had to work them out through trial and error. One rule, which had only gradually… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Most peasants did not miss the school. "What's the point?" they would say. "You pay fees and read for years, and in… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“There was a scavenging peasant moving about, whistling as he worked, with an outsize gunny sack on his back. The whitened knuckles… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon —a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
