Quotes with peasants

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

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  • Camille Paglia Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Leo Tolstoy But the peasants - how do the peasants die?
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella 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
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • John Millington Synge 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
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Bill Mauldin Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Doris Lessing 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
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Ralph Nader 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
    American political activist, author and attorney (1934 - )
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