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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
It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor. — Nelson Mandela
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. — Swami Vivekananda
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
The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best… — Michael Hastings
The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist… — Mao Zedong
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 peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet… — D. H. Lawrence
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root… — Mao Zedong
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
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free… — Noam Chomsky
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
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. — Eyedea
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. — Baron de Montesquieu
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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