Peasant Quotes

130 Peasant quotes by 116 unique authors

I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a… — Tom Jaine
Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread,… — Rex Stout
Chekhov said: let's put God - and all these grand progressive ideas - to one side. Let's begin with man; let's be kind and attentive… — Vasily Grossman
The poor ignorant fellah [Arabic for peasant] does not worry about politics, but when he is told repeatedly by people in whom he has confidence… — Chaim Weizmann
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one… — Ernst Junger
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. . . . You… — Hilaire Belloc
Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the… — Zelda Fitzgerald
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs. — Giuseppe Verdi
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman — Louis Pasteur
The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant. — Confucius
He (Hitler) is thinking about the peasant girls. When they stand in the fields and bend down at their work so that you can see… — Ernst Rohm
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no… — Ayn Rand
The university should color itself black and color itself mulatto—not just as regards students but also professors Today the people stand at the door of… — Che Guevara
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 reform and peaceful… — Eric Hobsbawm
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a… — Diana Vreeland
Dogs are born knowing exactly what they want to do: eat, scratch, roll in disgusting stuff, sniff and squabble with other dogs, roam, sleep, have… — Jon Katz
I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees. — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together. — Dan Buettner
You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,… — Marge Piercy
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. — John Milton
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring… — Jean Giono
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale… — Ai Weiwei
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and… — Unknown Author
I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual. — Unknown Author
As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro,… — Subcomandante Marcos

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