27 Peasant Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

God Nature Made Men Earth Ourselves Prince Equal Unto Dear However Same Deceive Poor Mighty Workman Peasant

The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war. Che Guevara

War Technically Will Angel First Rich Fighter Guerrilla Guiding Possible Must Morally Bothering Economically Sort Always Fallen Little Poor Who Helped Helping Phases Zone Peasant

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner. John Updike

Teacher Marriage Every Consist Tends Aristocrat Learner Peasant

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food. Alton Brown

Food You Before Road Hot Hot Dogs Like Know Most Dear Dogs Hamburgers Were American Hold Even Things Peasant

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

Remember Revolution Extreme Must Always Chinese Right Peasant

We want to overthrow the imperial power not because it is Manchurian but because we want republicanism... We republican revolutionaries can never have the notion of becoming emperors after the revolution, like all the peasant rebels did in the past. Sun Yat-sen

Power Past Revolution Imperial Never Like Because Becoming Overthrow Revolutionaries Did Want After In The Past Republican Republicanism Notion Rebels Peasant

Tolstoy didn't know about steampunk or cyborgs, but he did know about the nightmarishness of steam power, unruly machines, and the creepy half-human status of the Russian peasant classes. In 'Anna Karenina,' nineteenth-century life itself is a relentless, relentlessly modern machine, flattening those who oppose it. Elif Batuman

Life Power Oppose Machine Those Machines Relentless Relentlessly Status Classes About Russian Steam Unruly He Anna Know Itself Did Modern Who Tolstoy Peasant Creepy

There are two classes of women in Soviet Russia. There is the professional class, which has taken the place of the nobility and includes government officials, artists, doctors, composers and writers as well as former members of the old nobility whose sympathy is with the Soviets, and also the peasant class. Elsa Schiaparelli

Government Class Women Old Doctors Sympathy Members Classes Composers Russia Writers Taken Nobility Also Well Government Officials Officials Soviet Soviets Artists Place Which Former Professional Whose Peasant Two

The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but because he is always himself. We have seen him pay his own hotel bill and heard that Francis called Buenos Aires for a pair of ordinary black shoes, like John XXIII, who preferred stout peasant shoes to the traditional papal footwear. Eugene Kennedy

World Black Seen Shoes Own Pay Francis John Follows He Hotel Feels Footwear Like Him Himself Knows Because Always Traditional His Heard Ordinary Preferred Much Bill Who Whole Pair Peasant

I am for poetry that is admired by peasant and aristocrat alike. F. Sionil Jose

Alike Admired Poetry Aristocrat Am Peasant

Most people, throughout history, haven't learned one language to the exclusion of another. You learn to speak differently to a peasant and to a shoemaker. You speak differently to your mother, who comes from Burgundy, and to your father, who comes from Swabia. Ivan Illich

History You People Speak Mother Language Father Throughout Exclusion Most Learn Learned Another Burgundy Your Who Differently Peasant

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture. Jakaya Kikwete

Me Agriculture Critical Investing Most Transforming Thing Peasant

I remember I once went to a nutritionist who said I come from good Russian-Jewish peasant stock, which means I can hold a potato in my body for a week, if need be. Jennifer Jason Leigh

Good Remember Once Nutritionist Potato Week Come Said Stock Hold Which Body Means Who Peasant Need

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a darker hue. Let's start with 'Once on This Island': peasant girl. Let's go to 'The Color Purple': young girl, beaten. Let's go to 'Ragtime': Her baby's taken. LaChanze

Woman Women Dark Girl Young Skin Baby Once Darker Given Purple Color Beaten Taken Island Am Go Hue Very Roles African-American African-American Women Young Girl Specific Her Start Tone Peasant

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. Lee Trevino

Life Time Fly Believe Too Dreamed Could Like Protected Around Next Next Time Who Species Reincarnation Eagle Last Peasant

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

You Find Russian Scratch Peasant

I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now. Pierre Laval

Matters Nothing Farm Else France Am Want Keep Now Peasant

I like Sicilian food. It's real peasant food. Raymond Kelly

Food Like Real Peasant Sicilian

There aren't many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called 'Horned Pigeon.' He had been on the run and hadn't eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable. Sebastian Faulks

Love War Food Great Book World Cheese France Run Eastern Eaten Unbelievable About Kitchen Week Had He Written Smells House Wrote Pigeon Passages George Been His Worked Who Many Description Second Peasant World War Second World War

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. Woodrow Wilson

King Become Kingdom Democratic Render Does May Peasant

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