... 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
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a… — Clifford Sifton Copy Share Image
Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does… — Jordan Sonnenblick 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 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
He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
“This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are *equipped.* Up there,… — Doris Lessing 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
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry… — Pablo Neruda 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
“If a man couldn't escape what he came from, we would most of us still be peasants in Old World hovels. But,… — John Graves Copy Share Image
It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people… — Leon Trotsky 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
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take… — Gavrilo Princip 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
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
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to… — Henry IV of France Copy Share Image
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been… — David Hockney Copy Share Image
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell… — Robin Williams 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
“There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.” — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
