Obstinate Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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…

— Anwar Sadat

You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps above a…

— Ann Coulter

In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the…

— Marquis de Lafayette

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

— Mao Zedong

Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so…

— Dorothy Stang

The American farmer, whose holdings were not so extensive as those of the grandee nor so tiny as those of the peasant, whose psychology…

— Richard Hofstadter

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium,…

— Herman Gorter

There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political…

— Mao Zedong

...How can Americans living in the freest country in the world be 'slaves'? We don't even enjoy the liberty of serfs. ( A serf…

— Kenneth W. Royce

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 Terán

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

— Niccolo Machiavelli