“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. — Bill Mauldin Copy Share Image
Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. — Graham Chapman Copy Share Image
A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.” — Bob Copy Share Image
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass… — Helen Gurley Brown 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
I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is… — Howard K. Smith Copy Share Image
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. — Eyedea Copy Share Image
Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea;… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
“The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This priesthood became a closed group, able to control enormous wealth and incomes, and concerned very largely with the study of the… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano… — Subcomandante Marcos 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
It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads… — Anonymous 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
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
Whether we ever get to know about them or not, there are very probably alien civilizations that are superhuman, to the point… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared… — Becca Fitzpatrick 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
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it… — Maria Nikiforova Copy Share Image
The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are… — Michael J. Saylor 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
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
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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