Best Peasants Sayings

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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
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro
Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with… — G. M. Trevelyan
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
About 1911 I had the idea of making for my son, who had just been born, a blanket composed of bits of fabric like those… — Sonia Delaunay
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
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside… — Jared Diamond
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
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of… — Aurora Levins Morales
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where… — Ahmed Ben Bella
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. — Andrei Codrescu
Give the peasants neither life nor death. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
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
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants… — Larry Gates
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
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life,… — Jamake Highwater
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together… — Ernst Toller
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. — Bill Mauldin
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
A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet,… — Jack Handey
Art is no longer snobbish or cowardly. It teaches peasants to use tractors, gives lyrics to young soldiers, designs textiles for factory women's dresses, writes… — Azar Nafisi
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

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