Top 25 Peasants Quotes of 33 - Page 2

The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.

The lord is the peasant that was, The peasant is the lord that shall be.

Lord, Peasants

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.72, Harvard University Press

Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!

Bread, Remember, Peasants

The workers and peasants must, as quickly as possible, seize everything that was created by them over many centuries and use it for their own interests.

Maria Nikiforova

Use, Century, Peasants

"Atamansha: the Story of Maria Nikiforova, the Anarchist Joan of Arc" by Malcolm Archibald, Dublin: Black Cat Press, (p. 10), 2007.

The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cutting, Equality, Peasants

Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.254, Penguin Books India

I have the faith of a Breton peasant and by the time I die I hope to have the faith of a Breton peasant's wife.

Louis Pasteur

Wife, Peasants, Dies

"Letter to an Atheist" by Michael Patrick Leahy, (p. 61), 2007.

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

H. L. Mencken

Modern Life, Primates, Peasants

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Numbers, Peasants, Millionaire