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
Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and… — Philip Roth 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
The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu 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
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
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley 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
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
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work… — Anonymous 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
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
“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
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman 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
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
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
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
I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It… — Malcolm Gladwell 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
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
