Peasants Quotes
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I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike.
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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.
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They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.
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When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
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Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.
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Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.
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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.
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I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.
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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.
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Basically the French are all peasants.
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You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!
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He was surrounded by peasants, on whom the teeth of his arguments could find no purchase.
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For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
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A free peasant means free Poland, for he is the foundation of her greatness and independence.
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Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine. Since there are hardly any more arable unsettled lands. . . . we are bound in each case. . . to remove the peasants who cultivate the land.
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We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.
