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
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
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork… — Eli Broad 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
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
With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“The history of middle-class and working-class revolutions has shown that the bulk of the peasants often constitute a brake on the revolution.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky 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
If you have an area where high-income receivers concentrate, you have a higher fiscal capacity. That fiscal capacity is a valuable resource… — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned.… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers,… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
“German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
[Among conservatives] there's been too much pseudo-populism, almost too much concern and attention for, quote, 'the people'… After all, we conservatives are… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Like a couple of peasants huddled together in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Jack and Eliza performed their role in the Mass… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No,… — James Finn Garner 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
There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions… — Vijay Prashad 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
Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for… — Vladimir Lenin 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
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
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
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