Peasants Quotes - Page 14

• While eating a delicious food, remember the peasants and the workers who made this possible!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Remember, Eating, Made

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• By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?

  Christopher Hitchens

  Trying, Desert, Kind

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever”, p.18, Da Capo Press

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• The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them . . . Liberation theology, in Brazil particularly, brought the actual Gospel to  peasants. They said, let's read what the Gospels say, and try to act on the principles they describe. That was the major crime that set off the Reagan wars of terror.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Trying, Principles

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• Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

  Mao Zedong

  Sports, Play, Swim

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

  Scott Disick

  Royalty, Walking

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• The peasant finds no "natural" urgency within himself that will drive him toward Picasso in spite of all difficulties. In the end the peasant will go back to kitsch when he feels like looking at pictures, for he can enjoy kitsch without effort

  Clement Greenberg

  Effort, Kitsch, Natural

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.18, Beacon Press

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• Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Oil, Ignorant

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• Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Government, Two

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• Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

  Gina Lollobrigida

  Play, Sophia

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• Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

  Wallace Stevens

  Results, Ideals, Industry

  "The Most Beautiful Woman in Town". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1983.

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• 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!'

  Robin Williams

  Godzilla, Mets, Jonah

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• Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Animal, Men, Wisest Man

  Robert A. Heinlein (2007). “Glory Road”, p.277, Macmillan

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• 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

  Mother, Growing Up, Believe

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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

  Salvador Dali

  Chinese Revolution, Remember, Extremes

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• The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.

  Theodore Parker

  Kings, War, Grief

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• If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

  Henry IV of France

  Mean, Sunday, Kingdoms

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• 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

  Christian, Art, Messages

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• In the Far East, a peasant has no problem that someone can be born from another universe into a human body, walk up to their hut one day and ask for something to eat and transport them into infinite galaxies of awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  One Day, East, Body

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• Dispossessed peasants slash-and-burn their way into the rain forests of Latin America, hungry nomads turn their herds out into fragile African rangeland, reducing it to desert, and small farmers in India and the Philippines cultivate steep slopes, exposing them to the erosive powers of rain. Perhaps half the world's billion-plus absolute poor are caught in a downward spiral of ecological and economic impoverishment. In desperation, they knowingly abuse the land, salvaging the present by savaging the future.

  Alan Thein Durning

  Latin, Rain, Land

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• 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

  Dog, Hot, Hamburgers

  "13 Questions With Alton Brown". Interview with "AskMen" Editors, www.askmen.com.

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• Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

  Bayard Taylor

  Perseverance, Hard Work, Excellence

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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

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

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• I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dream, Jesus, Destiny

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• Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene. Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke When round the ruins of their ancient oak The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play, And games and carols closed the busy day.

  Samuel Rogers

  Twilight, Games, Play

  Samuel Rogers (1854). “The complete poetical works of Samuel Rogers: with a biographical sketch, and notes”, p.63

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• 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

  Believe, Doctors, Tunes

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