“Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
“Where were the gods then? The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut… — Graham Greene 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
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I still believe that workers must be the basic force which must organize and eventually transform society (along with peasants in poor… — Michael Yates 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
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But,… — John Graves Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though… — Tom Jaine Copy Share Image
Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a… — Clifford Sifton Copy Share Image
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
