That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.” — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“...the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“The machine which at first blush seems a means of isolating man from the great problems of nature, actually plunges him more… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant,… — Richard Hofstadter 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
“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 Irish ‘peasant’ is the child of time. He is its guardian and its slave. He will preserve for centuries dull and… — Séan O'FaoláIn Copy Share Image
“Lower River, low-class peasants. Fain is still smiling wide at me, smug as a contented cat. There’s an anticipatory gleam in his… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
“The younger sister was piqued, and in turn disparaged the life of a tradesman, and stood up for that of a peasant.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“West couldn't simply leave the man like this, he didn't have it in him. "Goodman Heath," he said as he approached, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“The fields that push up the corn, and the water that rushes down the ravine, the juice of the grape, and the… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
“It's beyond everything what's being done in the district, according to what this doctor tells me. He's a very intelligent fellow. And… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“One more impression I gathered from that work of my boyhood, an impression which I did not formulate till afterward, and which… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“There was a scavenging peasant moving about, whistling as he worked, with an outsize gunny sack on his back. The whitened knuckles… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“A little while ago, I stood by the grave of the old Napoleon —a magnificent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
