Peasant Quotes

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

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

This hardened enemy are the same type of people that executed the events of 11 September. It's obvious ... that they're not just peasants. - Joe Smith

This deal will hurt us, the Indians, the most. We are peasants and this trade deal will flood Ecuador with cheap farm products from the United States. - Humberto Cholango

They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is necessary for him to know. - Nikolai Gogol

They're still quite close to the body, a lot of things. There are very short skirts, there's also kind of fluid long peasant skirts, and there's an ankle-length A-line. - Rifat Ozbek

They may have had strong bonds to the land, but Irish peasants were among the most inefficient farmers in Europe. - David Holmes

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman's octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. - Luigi Barzini