Peasant Quotes

130 Peasant quotes by 116 unique authors

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela
Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off.… — Saint Francis de Sales
If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a… — Wallace Shawn
Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance. — Mao Zedong
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then… — Nikolai Gogol
The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
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
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now. — Pierre Laval
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the… — Mao Zedong
Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant. — Miguel de Cervantes
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

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