Educated Quote by Nikolai Gogol

Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather…

— Friedrich Engels

“They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people should not only be prevented from learning…

— William S Burroughs

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

Who knows better than a peasant farmer the agricultural conditions in his country or region? It is not always necessary to send an FAO…

— Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

More generally, independent farmers had to be trained to become docile workers in the expanding industrial system. It was necessary to drive from their…

— Noam Chomsky

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

“By reason of his species and his manners, the peasant comes below the pig. He finds moral life profoundly repugnant. If by chance he…

— Eduardo Galeano

Most farmers know that their children's future will probably not be in agriculture, but they have a hard time imagining a different life.

— Abhijit Banerjee

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

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The educated horse is a thinking horse, and it seems that he understands every now and then something happens that he must chalk up…

— Dennis Murphy

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

— Joel Salatin