I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
“These romantic visions of the peasantry were constantly undone by contact with reality, often with devastating consequences for their bearers. The populists,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people should not only be prevented… — William S Burroughs Copy Share Image
“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are *equipped.* Up there,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
“The history of middle-class and working-class revolutions has shown that the bulk of the peasants often constitute a brake on the revolution.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Diamond writes: “We have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said that the mountains are high… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but… — Robert Steven Gottfried Copy Share Image
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
“The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
