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Give the peasants neither life nor death. -- Ieyasu Tokugawa
There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. -- Mao Zedong
There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them. -- Eugene Chadbourne
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. -- Michel de Montaigne
Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. -- Bill Mauldin
The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants. -- Vladimir Lenin
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. -- Ernst Toller
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. -- Islom Karimov
I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech. -- Ahmed Ben Bella
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. -- Herman Gorter
But we remember that it was just precisely in the reign of Richard II that the Peasants' War, following upon the changes wrought by the visitations of the Great Plague, virtually destroyed serfdom as a personal status. -- Edward Jenks
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. -- Herman Gorter
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. -- Lech Walesa
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Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all. -- Charles Fort
This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything. -- Doris Lessing
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood. -- Jacques Roumain
But the peasants - how do the peasants die? -- Leo Tolstoy
That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. -- Woodrow Wilson
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. -- John Updike
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing -- Gavrilo Princip
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded. -- Howard K. Smith
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. -- Plato
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment! -- Herman Gorter
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. -- Gertrude Stein
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but. -- John Berger
In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside. -- John Millington Synge
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World. -- Maurice Sendak
I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants. -- Ion Tiriac
We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings. -- Matthew Tobin Anderson
I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing. -- Gavrilo Princip
Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived. -- Walter Annenberg
For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side. -- Herman Gorter
The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard. -- Michael J. Saylor
I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this. -- Mo Yan
I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
Land ownership in Guatemala is more unequal than anywhere else in Latin America. Roughly 90 percent of Guatemalan farms are too small to support a family. A tiny group of Guatemalans owns a third of the country's arable land; more than 300,000 landless peasants must scrounge a living as best they can. -- Stephen Kinzer
One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said. -- George Lucas
The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The truth is, the only thing I was inspired by was the fact that it's told from the point of view of two peasants, who get mixed up with a samurai and princess and a lot of very high-level people. -- George Lucas
Reasons are for peasants. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
Basically the French are all peasants. -- Pablo Picasso
Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies. -- Gina Lollobrigida
A country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies. -- Robert Kilroy-Silk
Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait. -- David Eddings
Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play. -- Mao Zedong
A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The gods don't care about men, no more than kings care about peasants. -- George R. R. Martin
I'm a big star. I don't need to be dealing with you peasants! -- Scott Disick
Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants. -- Lord Byron
While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly -- Michel de Montaigne
Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants. -- Alfonso X of Castile
The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil. -- Andrei Codrescu
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together. -- Friedrich Schiller
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. -- Frederick Busch
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper. -- Swami Vivekananda
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. -- Camille Paglia
Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. -- John Dryden
The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing. -- Eyedea
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. -- H. L. Mencken
Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership. -- Jakaya Kikwete
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. -- Fidel Castro
I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake". -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants. -- Leonid Brezhnev
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. -- Alan Furst
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government. -- Barbara Mertz
The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests. -- Maria Nikiforova
The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw. -- Norman Davies
It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend. -- Grover Norquist
Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening. -- A.J. Darkholme
Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs. -- Ralph Nader
I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way. -- Erin Morgenstern
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year. -- Helen Gurley Brown
Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests. -- Gregg Easterbrook
They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V.And you think you're so clever and classless and freeBut you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see -- John Lennon
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations. -- Joseph Stalin
Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished. -- David Hockney
Certainly not a party of the workers and the peasants. In fact, Jiang Zemin in recent weeks has officially said that capitalists and the entrepreneurs should be enrolled in the Communist Party. -- Henry A. Kissinger
Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome. -- Terry Pratchett
I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture. -- James C. Scott
The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds. -- Thomas Gray
Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true. -- Cassandra Clare
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon. -- Jose Saramago
We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts. -- Joe McGinniss
The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands. -- Jamake Highwater
Nellie's brow furrowed. "The great Mr. Hip-Hop Mogul standing in line with the common peasants? How do you figure that?" Dan grinned. "I'm starting to dig this 'no cars' thing. It's a great equalizer. -- Gordon Korman
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones. -- Victor Hugo

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