“There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.” — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
In living in the world by his own will and skill, the stupidest peasant or tribesman is more competent than the most… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the… — Ken Follet Copy Share Image
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to… — Henry IV of France Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental… — Robert Longo Copy Share Image
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt?… — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
The 3-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with those three you can learn anything you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“had always told me that I should not judge the country from the people I met in Bucharest, but that it was… — R.G. Waldeck Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why we started the Green Belt Movement is to work with these ordinary peasant farmers so as to… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I… — Ruth Sawyer Copy Share Image
I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities,… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not… — Ermanno Olmi Copy Share Image
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take… — Gavrilo Princip Copy Share Image
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When you're talking about peasants and children - obviously I've got some experience dealing with children - when you deal with children… — Greg Hardy Copy Share Image
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