Peasant Quotes

“Patient like a peasant.”

“Turkey's true master is the peasant.”

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

“Wikipedia: Peasant”

“Scratch a Russian you'll find a Tatar. Scratch a Russian worker and you'll find a peasant.”

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

“Wiktionary: Peasant”

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

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

“I have drawn into myself so much that I literally do not see any other people anymore-- excepting the peasants with whom I have direct contact, since I paint them.”

“All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.”

“If ever there was a slamming of the door in the face of constructive investigation, it is the word miracle. To a medieval peasant, a radio would have seemed like a miracle.”

“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.”

“Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.”

“Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way, as if we in Western Europe are also going to have that help.”

“The benefit of rich families putting their child through Harvard is always going to exist. But it's quite evident that there are 700 million peasants in China who are never going to go to Harvard.”

“To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!”

“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.”

“The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.”

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