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
The Bible affects everybody's life who is a Christian, from the middle class in Europe to the peasant in Africa and Asia.… — Ngugi wa Thiong'o Copy Share Image
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating. — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together. — Dan Buettner Copy Share Image
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the… — Islom Karimov Copy Share Image
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook… — Ernst Toller Copy Share Image
Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found… — Elsa Maxwell Copy Share Image
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
“country's middle class was growing at a very slow pace. By the late 1940s, around 5 per cent of the population controlled… — Tarek Osman Copy Share Image
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs,… — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — John Timbs Copy Share Image
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand… — Ramon Magsaysay Copy Share Image
The creator of the heavens obeys a carpenter; the God of eternal glory listens to a poor virgin. Has anyone ever witnessed… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in… — Isabel Fonseca Copy Share Image
“To eat one's fill, eat until the exhaustion of the appetite, was the principal pleasure that the peasants dangled before their imagination,… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image