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
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking… — Dorothy Stang Copy Share Image
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world… — G. M. Trevelyan 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
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx 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
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt?… — Graham Chapman 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
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
“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
Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which… — Mikhail Kalinin Copy Share Image
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. — Vladimir Lenin 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
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants'… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
