Peasants Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Gavrilo Princip

  Revenge, Regret, Son

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• Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and with blind feelings reverence the power that grinds them to the dust of misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Kings, Power, Dust

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.10

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• They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.

  Neal Stephenson

  Book, Princess, Simple

  Neal Stephenson (1998). “The Diamond Age”, p.468, Penguin UK

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• This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, People, World

  Doris Lessing (1985). “The Good Terrorist”, Vintage

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

  James Joyce

  Dream, Heart, Vision

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.370, Delphi Classics

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• I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Son, Cities, Age

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Men, Care

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.518, Bantam

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

  Mao Zedong

  Serious, Tendencies, Wells

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.32, China Books

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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

  Cricket, Has Beens, Ifs

  G. M. Trevelyan (1944). “English Social History”

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• Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Opportunity, Productive Work

  Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.179, Pantheon

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• As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.

  Herman Gorter

  Mean, Land, Pieces

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• And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

  Herman Gorter

  Country, Two, France

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• 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.

  Islom Karimov

  Spring, Fields, Abundance

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• In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

  John Millington Synge

  Family, Son, Artist

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

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• They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Men, Thinking, Literature

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• A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.

  John Berger

  Animal, Pigs, Two

  John Berger (2011). “About Looking”, p.7, Vintage

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• Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

  Ralph Nader

  Organization, Slavery, Today

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• 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.

  Mo Yan

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• 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.

  Howard K. Smith

  Italian, America, Paradise

  Howard K. Smith (1951). “The State of Europe”

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

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Horse, Stupidity

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• You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.

  Saddam Hussein

  Three, World, Hussein

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gulf War" by Charles Jaco, (p. 23), 2002.

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

  Eyedea

  Kings, World, Truth Is

  Song: Here For You

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

  Milla Jovovich

  Scratches

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• If this government can send 20 billion dollars to Latin America to some peasants who have never fought for this country or worked for this country or have - or - and is sending hundreds of millions of dollars to Africa and Asia to try and buy friendship of people who will never be friendly toward them, then they should be even more quick to spend some - whatever amount of money is necessary to get inside of their house straight, before it's too late.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Latin, America

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

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Want, Left Alone, Left

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