“Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.”
Milla Jovovich
“Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.”
Saddam Hussein
“Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.”
Samuel Johnson
“The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone”
Italian Proverb
“But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Epictetus was a peasant child born about 50 A.D. who grew up to be a well-known Stoic philosopher, ... In modern buzz-word speak, he was the inventor of 'What people think of me is none of my business.' So I got really hooked on him.”
Rodney Crowell
