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This collection holds 77 peasants quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Matthew Woodring Stover, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk and Ieyasu Tokugawa.

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Reasons are for peasants.

Turkey's true master is the peasant.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Give the peasants neither life nor death.

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Success as a result of industry is a peasant's ideal.

My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

Nobles and peasants marry early. Businessmen tend to wait.

The peasant wants only to be left alone to prosper in peace.

I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

I don't have to be walking around like some peasant. I'm royalty!

The gods don’t care about men, no more than kings care about peasants.

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

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

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.

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

The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

There are not the weeds the ones that drown the good seed, but the negligence of the peasant.

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

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.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.

Land ownership has never been a problem. People have access to land. The peasants cannot complain about land ownership.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

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

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Leaders' like Maduro, Erdogan and Putin hate freedom because it gives filthy peasants too much say and power over their own lives.

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

I met Jonah Lomu. I never knew how huge he was. I felt like a peasant in a Godzilla movie. 'Quickly! Tell the other villagers! We go now!'

The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

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.

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.

With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.

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.

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.

French cooking is really the result of peasants figuring out how to extract flavor from pedestrian ingredients. So most of the food that we think of as elite didn't start out that way.

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