Top 233 Peasant Quotes & Sayings

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

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

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

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

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

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.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

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.

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

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.

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

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

I had a moral opposition to eating before dawn on the grounds that I was not a nineteenth-century Russian peasant fortifying myself for a day in the fields.

The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.

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

Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.

Give me a few minutes.” “You have time.” He sat in the grass. “Are you just going to sit there and watch me?” “Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best.” “Peasant?” He shrugged. “You started the name calling.

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

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.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.

I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.

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.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

One may speak Latin and have but the mind of a peasant.

I really don’t feel exclusiveMy ambition instead, perhaps because of my peasant-worker background, is to look at the world with others, not as an aristocratic intellectual.

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

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

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

You go to Europe, and they have their very wealthy elites, and then everybody else is, you know, a couple of steps above a peasant, basically.

Who’s that? That’s the King. Who’s he? The Duke. Who’s she? The Princess. What do they call you? The Count. What does that make me? Umm…how about the Peasant? And the name stuck.

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

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

When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them... They would be the leaders and the peasant women would be the masses.

You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant. Could I but know all I would have the faith of a Breton peasant woman.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

When a peasant begins to feel the need for instruction, he usually becomes fiercely calculating.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

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

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

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

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.