Peasants Quotes

Peasants Quote of the day

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

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.

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

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

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

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.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

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.

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!

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.

Basically the French are all peasants.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

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.

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.

Sensible men no longer belive in miracles; they were invented by priests to humbug the peasants.

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

Finally 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.

The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

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

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

Reasons are for peasants.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

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.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

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.

I'm a big star. I don't need to be dealing with you peasants!

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

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.

A remarkable feature of Islam is that it gives dignity even to the humblest illiterate peasants. It gives them a certain human dignity which one doesn't find in other societies.

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.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

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.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

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.