There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. — Andrei Codrescu 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
There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who… — Lee Trevino Copy Share Image
Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them.… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even… — Joe McGinniss Copy Share Image
You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living… — Penny Lernoux Copy Share Image
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
Virginia was in fact a landowning aristocracy, without nobility or merchant class, or any considerable small peasant farming class; and the other… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
What worker or peasant can pay 80 - 90 million dollars to elect a senator or 4 billion to elect a president?… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Peasants, who after the liberation of the country became the masters of their lands and their country under the benevolence of Comrade… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its… — Glen Cook 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
Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant,… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will… — Anonymous 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
She set about preparing her supper. It would have to be one of those classically simple meals, the sort that French peasants… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Our peasant music, naturally, is invariably tonal, if not always in the sense that the inflexible major and minor system is tonal.… — Bela Bartok Copy Share Image
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Where were the gods then? The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.” — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Copy Share Image
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady. — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image