“Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes,… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.” — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives. — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“One day a greasy landowner will drag the peasants before the Zembro Court for trespass, and the next, if it's a holiday,… — Anton Checkov Copy Share Image
N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that… — Ernst Rohm Copy Share Image
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors Today the people stand at… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after… — Herman Gorter Copy Share Image
“So the peasants are used as targets in war?” I doubted. “Does the Overhead feel that is necessary to kill off one… — B.C. Doyle 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
“And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky 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
In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take… — Gavrilo Princip Copy Share Image
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not… — Ermanno Olmi Copy Share Image
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
