Peasant Quotes

130 quotes by 116 authors

It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.… — Sebastian Faulks
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and… — Vladimir Lenin
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can… — Anwar Sadat
In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their… — Frederick Lenz
The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared… — Ramon Magsaysay
You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before… — Alton Brown
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. — Bayard Taylor
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman. — H P Lovecraft
How do I define a work of art? It is not an asset in the stock-exchange sense, but a man's timid attempt to repeat the… — Oskar Kokoschka
Where and when have riots and anarchy been provoked by wise measures? If the government had acted wisely, and if their measures had met the… — Vladimir Lenin
Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over… — Fanny Kemble
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a… — Richard Dawkins
I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know? — James Earl Jones
There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. — Henry David Thoreau
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they… — Lee Trevino
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. — John Updike

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