Peasants Quotes - Page 13

• Every peasant has a lawyer inside of him, just as every lawyer, no matter how urbane he may be, carries a peasant within himself.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  May, Matter, Lawyer

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• Ireland still remains the Holy Isle whose aspirations must on no account be mixed with the profane class-struggles of the rest of the sinful world ... the Irish peasant must not on any account know that the Socialist workers are his sole allies in Europe.

  Friedrich Engels

  Struggle, Europe, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1942). “Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: selected correspondence, 1846-1895: with explanatory notes”

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• Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Blessing, Names, Comfort

  Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, ch. 1, 1863.

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• The dog is a peasant and the cat is a gentleman.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Dog, Cat, Gentleman

  George H. Scithers, P. D Cacek, H. P. Lovecraft (2010). “Cat Tales 2: Fantastic Feline Fiction”, p.146, Wildside Press LLC

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• What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others.  All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Class, Together

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• No Bolshevik, no Communist, no intelligent socialist has ever entertained the idea of violence against the middle peasants. All socialists have always spoken of agreement with them and of
  their gradual and voluntary transition to socialism.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Intelligent, Agreement, Ideas

  "Reply to a Peasant's Question". "Collected Works" by Vladimir Lenin, Vol. 36, (p. 501), www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Land, Bourgeoisie, Slave

  "Collected Works, Vol. 41". Book by Vladimir Lenin, 1960.

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• The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

  H. L. Mencken

  Modern Life, Primates, Moron

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• It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Loss, Thinking, Iran

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• Basically the French are all peasants.

  Pablo Picasso

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso, Deborah Povey (1995). “A Picasso bestiary”, Academy Editions Ltd

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

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Sophisticated, Reason, Enough

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• Do not eat garlic or onions; for their smell will reveal that you are a peasant.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Smell, Garlic, Onions

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1954). “Don Quixote”, London ; Montreal : Penguin Books

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• I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.

  Maureen Howard

  Sight, Looks, World

  Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA

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• Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.

  Anwar Sadat

  Self, Land, Giving

  Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row

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

  John Dryden

  Kings, Fate, Dice

  Works Volume XV, 1821 Edition (p. 103)

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• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

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• Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!

  Leon Trotsky

  Stars, Believe, Ignorance

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• Though freedom and wealth are both good things which most of us desire and though we often need both to obtain what we wish, they still remain different. Whether or not I am my own master and can follow my own choice and whether the possibilities from which I must choose are many or few are two entirely different questions. The courtier living in the lap of luxury but at the beck and call of his prince may be much less free than a poor peasant or artisan, less able to live his own life and to choose his own opportunities for usefulness.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opportunity, Two, Luxury

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• A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Queens, Names, Wife

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• The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist line and take an active attitude in solving problems instead of evading them, there will be no difficulty in the world which they cannot overcome.

  Mao Zedong

  Attitude, Struggle, Destiny

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.198, China Books

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• We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

  C. S. Lewis

  War, Knights, Suffering

  H. S. Bennett, E. K. Chambers, C. S. Lewis, Douglas Bush, W. L. Remwick (1954). “The Oxford History of English Literature”

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• Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Bread, Remember, Hardworking

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• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

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• Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Ploughing, Fields, Facts

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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

  Alfonso X of Castile

  Men, Miracle, Priests

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