The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw… — Ahmed Ben Bella Copy Share Image
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not… — Ermanno Olmi Copy Share Image
Give me a few minutes.” “You have time.” He sat in the grass. “Are you just going to sit there and watch… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor,… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them.… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way… — Mao Zedong 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
Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. — Martin Luther 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 doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he… — Edgar Snow Copy Share Image
While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. — Eugene Chadbourne Copy Share Image
Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
