Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. — Robert Kilroy-Silk Copy Share Image
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of peasants shows itself in their ability to pretend that they are fools.” — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. — Eyedea Copy Share Image
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well? — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat… — Mikhail Gorbachev 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
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
I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself… — John Green Copy Share Image
“These, then, are the wise men, the lights of the world. Alas, alas! I had hoped for other things; here, as peasants… — Ioannes Amos Comenius 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
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
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine… — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared… — Becca Fitzpatrick 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
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous 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
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
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
“Peasant families were close-knit. However, as the Black Death swept through village after village, it became difficult for young peasants to find… — Patricia D. Netzley Copy Share Image
“Most peasants did not miss the school. "What's the point?" they would say. "You pay fees and read for years, and in… — Jung Chang 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
“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
“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
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid 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
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image