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
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
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 serious problem is the education of the peasantry. The peasant economy is scattered, and the socialization of agriculture, judging by the… — Mao Zedong 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
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid 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
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 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
Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven… — Miguel de Unamuno Copy Share Image
The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how… — D. H. Lawrence 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
“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by… — Eduardo Galeano 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
There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Only in America, Rabbi Golden, do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk… — Philip Roth 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
The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which… — Mikhail Kalinin 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
“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
“The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both… — Robert Darnton 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
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood… — Gregg Easterbrook 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