Top 186 Peasants Quotes & Sayings

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

Reasons are for peasants.

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

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

Finally I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

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.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

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

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.

It's the Democrats whose position is that the only problem in Washington, D.C., is the peasants aren't sending enough cash in for the king to spend.

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.

I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: "Well, let them eat cake".

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

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

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

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

The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

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.

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.

There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work among the peasants during the co-operative movement and for a very long period after.

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

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

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

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

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

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

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.

We forgave, followed and accepted because we liked the way he looked. And he had a pretty wife. Camelot was fun, even for the peasants, as long as it was televised to their huts.

Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives.

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.

But the peasants - how do the peasants die?

I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants would soon be on their side.

I'm a big star. I don't need to be dealing with you peasants!

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.

'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.

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

I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

A small number of peasants - brave peasants - shot down two Apaches

Basically the French are all peasants.

If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and take over the government.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

I mixed with a lot of peasants, workers, artists and writers, all deprived of work. That's when I understood human beings have an instinct toward knowledge.