Cease Quote by Friedrich Engels

Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. Theydid not know it was…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is…

— Ernest Hemingway

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…

— Nikolai Gogol

“The peasants who had more land or livestock than others were the first to lose what they had. A”

— Timothy Snyder

Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.

— Rush D. Holt, Jr

The real work of men was hunting meat. The invention of agriculture was a giant step in the wrong direction, leading to serfdom, cities,…

— Edward Abbey

“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those…

— Yuval Noah Harari

These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference,…

— Stephen Crane

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more…

— Henry David Thoreau

I was born a farmer and I'll die a farmer.

— Matt Hughes

“The stress of farming had far-reaching consequences. It was the foundation of large-scale political and social systems. Sadly, the diligent peasants almost never achieved…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Farmers are philosophical; they have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts. But there is another angle to…

— Ruth Stout