The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. — William Butler Yeats 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
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
“country's middle class was growing at a very slow pace. By the late 1940s, around 5 per cent of the population controlled… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Every night I get many letters, and after every talk I get many questions from people who say, "I want to change… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors Today the people stand at… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
“To eat one's fill, eat until the exhaustion of the appetite, was the principal pleasure that the peasants dangled before their imagination,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman 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
Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood… — Gregg Easterbrook 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
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
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
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
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
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
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the… — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was an island named Blogosphere, and at the very center of that island stood a great castle… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants… — Barbara Pym 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
“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
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
“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
It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image