I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.” — Bob Copy Share Image
You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living… — Penny Lernoux Copy Share Image
A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even… — Joe McGinniss Copy Share Image
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Far from being writers—founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language,… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team’s all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them.… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who… — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes,… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives. — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
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