History books Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Until the late modern era, more than 90 percent of humans were peasants”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown…

— Alain de Botton

“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.” “They're…

— Andrew Ashling

“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible oppression, injustice,…

— George Orwell

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

— Timothy Snyder

“ever and again we find some leader or some tribe amidst the disorder of free and independent nomads, powerful enough to force a sort…

— H.G. Wells

“...the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller,…

— Thomas Hardy

“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their path is…

— Nick Drnaso

“but pauperization cut into the spending power of all but the elite. Demand from great lords for luxury goods remained high, but many gentlemen…

— Robert Steven Gottfried

“True, hundreds of millions may nevertheless go on believing in Islam, Christianity or Hinduism. But numbers alone don’t count for much in history. History…

— Yuval Noah Harari