(23 quotes found)
“Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.”
Swami Vivekananda
“Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.”
Milla Jovovich
“If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.”
Russian Proverb
“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
“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
“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
“Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon.”
Saddam Hussein
“Basically the French are all peasants.”
Pablo Picasso
