The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. — Robert Kilroy-Silk Copy Share Image
“Until the late modern era, more than 90 percent of humans were peasants” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the… — Islom Karimov Copy Share Image
You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and… — Marge Piercy 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
“These, then, are the wise men, the lights of the world. Alas, alas! I had hoped for other things; here, as peasants… — Ioannes Amos Comenius 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
“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors Today the people stand at… — Che Guevara 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
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 night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“What’s missing from the literature of our species are the stories of the peasants. The filthy illiterate. Those with no firm address,… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin 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
“country's middle class was growing at a very slow pace. By the late 1940s, around 5 per cent of the population controlled… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
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