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
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation,… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence. — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont 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 can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their… — Nick Drnaso Copy Share Image
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The… — Arthur O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
