quotes about Peasants
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
-- Andrei CodrescuSource : Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.139, Princeton University Press
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I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.
-- Dmitri Shostakovich -
When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.
-- Emile Zola -
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
-- Fidel Castro -
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
-- G. M. Trevelyan -
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
-- Giuseppe Verdi -
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus ***** boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
-- Ieyasu Tokugawa -
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The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.
-- Leonid Brezhnev -
Could I but know all, I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman
-- Louis Pasteur -
I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.
-- Louis Pasteur -
The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.
-- Maria NikiforovaSource : "Atamansha: the Story of Maria Nikiforova, the Anarchist Joan of Arc" by Malcolm Archibald, Dublin: Black Cat Press, (p. 10), 2007.
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Reasons are for peasants.
-- Matthew Woodring StoverSource : Matthew Woodring Stover (1998). “Jericho Moon”, N A L Trade
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Turkey's true master is the peasant.
-- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk -
I'm a big star. I don't need to be dealing with you peasants!
-- Scott Disick -
A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.
-- Walter MosleySource : Walter Mosley (2009). “The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery”, p.78, Penguin
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Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.
-- Gina Lollobrigida -
I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!
-- Scott Disick