Money Quote by Bob

“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A”

— Timothy Snyder

“Until the late modern era, more than 90 percent of humans were peasants”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.”

— David Marusek

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Farmers aren't rich. They have land but no money." Actually, my father didn't even have that much land. He had once stood on the…

— Lorrie Moore

“I am only a peasant by position, not by nature!”

— Thomas Hardy

“Laws were made to establish a gradation of ranks; but it was soon found that the soil of America was opposed to a territorial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The class of small farmers is the strength and support of the nation.”

— Joseph Casper Husslein

“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.”

— Amish Tripathi

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“...Most peasants never traveled farther than twenty-five miles from the village of their birth. They had strong social ties to their communities, and could…

— Patricia D. Netzley