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
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you… — Jacques Roumain 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
All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses… — Stephen Spender 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
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
Are there not thousands who have loved virtue who did not accept Jesus Christ in any supernatural or miraculous fashion, who, if… — Jenkin Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not… — David Bornstein 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
Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military… — Andrew Jackson 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
“about 900 million people live in the countryside, where more than half the peasants survive on about US$0.73 per day. Incomes there… — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be… — Stephen King 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
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings… — Hans Koning Copy Share Image
With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
We must have faith, first, that the peasant masses are ready to advance step by step along the road of socialism under… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and… — Saint Francis de Sales 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
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
Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
This root [the potato], no matter how much you prepare it, is tasteless and floury. It cannot pass for an agreeable food,… — Denis Diderot 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
Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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