Peasants Quotes - Page 9

• That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. A small drinking glass and a large one may be equally full, but the large one holds more than the small.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Drinking, Insperational

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.227

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• There was movement along the fringe of Chauncey's vision, and he snapped his head to the left. At first glance what appeared to be a large angel topping a nearby monument rose to full height. Neither stone nor marble, the boy had arms and legs. His torso was naked, his feet were bare, and peasant trousers hung low on his waist. He hopped down from the monument, the ends of his hair dripping rain. It slid down his face, which was dark as a Spaniard's.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Rain, Angel, Dark

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Ours is a people's democratic dictatorship, led by the working class and based on the worker-peasant alliance.

  Mao Zedong

  Class, People, Alliances

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.37, China Books

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• The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

  William Butler Yeats

  Faith, Glasses, Mosaics

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Agriculture, Want, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.

  Robert Darnton

  Mother, People, Toil

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• On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.

  Pablo Neruda

  Writing, Humanity, Earth

  Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner (2004). “The essential Neruda: selected poems”, p.7, City Lights Books

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• The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

  Norman Davies

  Ukraine, Important, Purpose

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• The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, War, Struggle

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright.

  Mao Zedong

  Book, Cocky, Blow

  Zedong Mao (1967). “Speech at the Chinese Communist Party's National Conference on Propaganda Work: March 12, 1957”

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• The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sweet, War, Home

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• I dream that someday the United States will be on the side of the peasants in some civil war. I dream that we will be the ones who will help the poor overthrow the rich, who will talk about land reform and education and health facilities for everyone, and that when the Red Cross or Amnesty International comes to count the bodies and take the testimony of women raped, that our side won't be the heavies.

  Michael Parenti

  Dream, War, Land

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• You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.

  Marge Piercy

  Strength, Dark, Fire

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.96, Knopf

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• The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Simple, Civilization

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy in America - Vol. I. and II.”, p.336, Read Books Ltd

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• Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also, was sacred. Peasants gather around them in rituals. In the Land of the Dead there was a sycamore in whose branches the goddess Hathor lived; she leaned out of it giving sustenance and water to deceased souls. In Memphis, Hathor's epithet was Lady of the Sycamore.

  Larry Gates

  Life, Art, Egypt

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• If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought.

  Wallace Shawn

  Years, Giving, Effort

  Wallace Shawn (1985). “Aunt Dan and Lemon: A Play”, p.92, Grove Press

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Italian, Elderly, Saint

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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

  Lord Byron

  Sports, Autumn, Nuts

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Thirteenth”

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• Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.

  Rhys Ifans

  Kings, Queens, Grief

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

  Tracy Kidder

  Thinking, Clothes, Water

  Tracy Kidder (2003). “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World”, p.120, Random House

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• Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a 300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.

  Julia Child

  Block, Food, Cooking

  Julia Child, E. S. Yntema (1979). “Julia Child & more company”, Knopf

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• For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Time, Real, Bread

  "Economics And Politics In The Era Of The Dictatorship Of The Proletariat". Pravda, No. 250, November 07, 1919. Collected Works, Volume 30, pages 107-117, www.marxists.org.

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wise, Life Lesson, Army

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• I have had affairs that lasted decades and others that lasted for hours. I have loved princesses and peasants. And I suppose they loved me, each in their way.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Princess, Way, Affair

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• Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grandmother, Average, Years

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