“Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who… — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a… — Louis Pasteur 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
A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living… — Penny Lernoux Copy Share Image
“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.” — Bob Copy Share Image
“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but… — Rudyard Kipling 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, on the corner, stood a thick crowd of people, all of them peasants. He made his way into the very thick… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“It can be so difficult to train up the peasants,” she said, pretending to commiserate, her voice heavy with irony. “They find… — Caitlin Crews Copy Share Image
The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea.… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
On Sundays, at the matin-chime, The Alpine peasants, two and three, Climb up here to pray; Burghers and dames, at summer's prime,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British… — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship is based on the alliance of the working class, the peasantry and the urban petty bourgeoisie, and mainly… — Mao Zedong 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
“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
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant,… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want… — Noam Chomsky 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
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even… — Joe McGinniss Copy Share Image
I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After a child has arrived at the legal age for attending school,-whether he be the child of noble or of peasant,-the only… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though… — Tom Jaine Copy Share Image
Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
