Common folk Quote by Mo Yan

“Farmers don’t picket government corruption, they picket fences. Let this be a lesson in love and the proper way to separate churlish and state.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The sages do not act from (any wish to be) benevolent; they deal with the people as the dogs of grass are dealt with.”

— Lao Tzu

“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of its favours to those that are called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or…

— Thomas More Hoban

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”

— Voltaire

“Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who…

— Terry Pratchett

“The respectable, like the despised, are always at the mercy of circumstances; the influences of environment and the weight of tradition are vastly important…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder…

— Frederick Douglass

“The organization of each Folk, as such, sprang in all likelihood mainly from war, from a common greed of conquest, a common need of…

— John Richard Green

“There was no honor in grinding outsiders underfoot. There was no joy in burning their legacies. The highest good laid in lifting everyone up,…

— C.K. Gold

“Everyone should be treated according to their status, noblemen and Jaguar Knights more harshly than commoners.”

— Anonymous