Day life Quote by Orlando Figes

“These romantic visions of the peasantry were constantly undone by contact with reality, often with devastating consequences for their bearers. The populists, who invested…

— Orlando Figes

“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

“Their courage is called revolt, their discipline Pharisaism, theirindependence[41.] arbitrariness, and their masterfulness arrogance.[42.] For the tyrannical despiser of humanity, popularity is a sign…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them…

— Jared Diamond

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some…

— Jim Butcher

At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is why Rousseau…

— Bruno Dumont

“Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?”

— Carol Ryrie Brink

“Compare with such a one the common rabble of mankind, stupid and mean-spirited, servile, instable, and continually floating with the tempest of various passions,…

— Michel de Montaigne

“When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day…

— Emma Wildes

“He was one of those who are driven early in life into too conservative an attitude by the bewildering folly of most revolutionists.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts…

— Euripides