Peasants Quotes - Page 3

• If we did ten things, nine were bad and got disclosed by the newspapers, we will be over. Then I will go, to the countryside, lead the peasant and revolt. If the Liberation Army do not follow me, I will get the Red Army.

  Mao Zedong

  Army, Red, Nine

  Speech at the Lushan Conference, July 23, 1959.

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• Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

  Martin Luther

  Drunk, Sides, Human Nature

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• The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.

  Henry Highland Garnet

  Sight, Liberty, Spirit

  Henry Highland Garnet (1865). “A Memorial Discourse”, p.48, Gale Cengage Learning

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

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Land, Tree, Doe

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• If the peasants are in open rebellion, then they are outside the law of God. Therefore let all who are able slash, strike down, and kill (those who rebel) openly and secretly, remembering that there can be nothing more venomous, harmful, or devilish than a rebel. It is exactly like killing a mad dog.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Law, Mad

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• I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.

  Marita Golden

  Pain, Answers, Half

  Marita Golden (2008). “Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography”, p.33, Anchor

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• The nobility danced for the sake of social grace, to exhibit their finery...peasants danced to make themselves happy, to escape the routine of their life, and to meet their future wives and husbands.

  Jamake Highwater

  Dance, Husband, Dancing

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• My wife was the first art collector in the family, and I didn't become interested until around 1973. The first important artwork we bought was a Van Gogh drawing of two peasant houses in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer.

  Eli Broad

  Art, Two, Drawing

  "Eli Broad: Blame My Wife". Interview with Sophie Duvernoy, www.laweekly.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

  Mayim Bialik

  Army, Together, Boots

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

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• As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

  Subcomandante Marcos

  Gay, Gang Members, San Francisco

  "'Marcos is Gay'". www.greenleft.org.au. November 05, 1997.

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• The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.

  Charles Krauthammer

  America, Europe, Political

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• A doctor may know more than a peasant, but a peasant and a doctor know more together.

  Dan Buettner

  Doctors, Together, May

  Dan Buettner (2010). “Thrive: Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way”, p.36, National Geographic Books

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• N. S. Khrushchev established his supremacy in the U.S.S.R. after post-Stalinist alarums and excursions (1958-64). This admirable rough diamond, a believer in reform and peaceful coexistence, who incidentally emptied Stalin's concentration camps, dominated the international scene in the next few years. He was also perhaps the only peasant boy ever to rule a major state

  Eric Hobsbawm

  Boys, Years, Peaceful

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• I think that what's so interesting about her is that she took to an extreme her embrace of peasant life even though she was a singing and dancing European intellectual.

  Tom Jaine

  Thinking, Dancing, Interesting

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• He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

  Max Lucado

  Christmas, Girl, Baby

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• When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benevolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for that old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.

  Jean Giono

  Spring, Taken, Greatness

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• 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.

  Ai Weiwei

  Voice, Mind, Fairy Tale

  "The Bold and the Beautiful". Global Times, November 26, 2009.

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• Lately I was near the beehives and some of the bees flew onto my face. I wanted to raise my hand, and brush them off. 'No,' said a peasant to me, 'do not be afraid, and do not touch them. They will not sting you at all, if you touch them they will bite you.' I trusted him; not one bit me. Trust me; do not fear these temptations. Do not touch them; they will not hurt you.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Hurt, Hands, Temptation

  Saint Francis (de Sales) (1995). “Thy Will be Done: Letters to Persons in the World”, p.216, Sophia Institute Press

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

  Swami Vivekananda

  India, Cobblers, Cottages

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

  Nelson Mandela

  Daughter, Doctors, Long Walk To Freedom

  Twitter post from Oct 11, 2016

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• I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.

  Jose Saramago

  Rivers, Small Villages, East

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

  Andrei Codrescu

  Land, Evil, Salute

  Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.139, Princeton University Press

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• 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.

  Ermanno Olmi

  Ambition, Intellectual, Looks

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• I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality

  Clifford Sifton

  Children, Thinking, Sheep

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• The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make it to the nobleman's palace to burn him out and seize the fields. This was the role of Jews in Europe. This has been the role of Jews in the United States, and this is the role of Jews in the Middle East.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Europe, Middle East, Groups

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