I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“So the peasants are used as targets in war?” I doubted. “Does the Overhead feel that is necessary to kill off one… — B.C. Doyle Copy Share Image
All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
It is quite affecting to observe how much the olive tree is to the country people. Its fruit supplies them with food,… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
I've no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes' work and then spend the rest of… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Like at the DMV when you've passed your driver's test and had a really bad picture taken and you're waiting for them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of… — Sonia Delaunay Copy Share Image
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
“I had always pictured the Albanian peasants as a very fine picturesque race of men wearing spotless native costume, and slung about… — Flora Sandes Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that… — Ernst Rohm 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
“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday,… — Anton Checkov Copy Share Image
No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien… — Morris West Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea;… — V. S. Naipaul 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
![“The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence that his livelihood is in danger of being taken away from him by us, he becomes our mortal enemy. . . The Arab is primitive and believes what he is told.” quote by Chaim Weizmann](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/75c/chaim-weizmann-27625_believe_the-poor-ignorant-fellah-arabic-for-peas_74345.png)
