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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
Who shall say that those poor peasants were not acting in the spirit we most venerate, most adore; that theirs was not the true heart… — James Anthony Froude
For liberals, the observation that 'the peasants are revolting' is a pun. For conservatives, it is cause for uncharacteristic optimism. No matter how far the… — Charles Krauthammer
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,… — Karl Marx
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
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer… — Doris Lessing
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all… — George Lucas
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was… — George Lucas
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. — Michel de Montaigne
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the… — Jose Saramago
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
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of… — Lech Walesa
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. — Woodrow Wilson
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. — Mao Zedong
And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary, for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The… — Frantz Fanon
Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of… — Terry Pratchett
Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father,… — P.G. Wodehouse
... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so… — Catherynne M. Valente
In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some… — Martin Heidegger
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. — James Joyce
How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal… — Tracy Kidder

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