World Peasants Quotes

#1. All the wrong things for all the wrong reasons. Sometimes people just want to feel different. And so long as Third World peasants are poor they will send us drugs, and as long as we are empty we will ask for this little plant.

George Carlin

#2. THOUGHTS are the WORDS supported with the ACTION and both are not independent of each other to produce results.

Anuj

#3. Harvie Conn, who related this story in one of his books, added that gospel preaching that targets some sins but not the sins of oppression cannot possibly work among the overwhelming majority of people in the world, poor peasants and workers.

Timothy Keller

#4. Do not covet your ideas.

Paul Arden

#5. As a child, I used to wonder why markets in my locality were all situated near the main roads. I grew up a little to get the answer; " that business minded people can meet there easily!" Your dream must be situated where they can meet people!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. England, where no one has guns: 14 deaths. United States ... 23,000 deaths from handguns. But
there's no connection ...

Bill Hicks

#7. Though environmental orthodoxy holds that Third World deforestation is caused by rapacious clear-cutters and ruthless cattle barons, penniless peasants seeking fuel wood may be the greatest threat to our forests.

Gregg Easterbrook

#8. The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia.

Herman Gorter

#9. But what hope is there for the world, if a nation of penniless peasants can't try to climb up out of the mud without being crushed under the jackboot of Uncle Sam?

Ken Follett

#10. I love you and forgive you for everything you've ever done. I'm sorry for everything that has ever hurt you.

Mark Landau

#11. The world seemed quite willing to accept misunderstood artists, misunderstood thieves, and even peasants who dreamed of royalty. But nobody knew what to do with a misunderstood philologist. Other than run him out of town for bringing the dragons down on them.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.

Michael Hastings

#13. The world is stuffed full of peasants.

Shirley Coleman

#14. My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

Maurice Sendak

#15. I decided that since peasants were the largest segment of the world's population, it would be an honorable and worthy career to devote my life to the study of peasants and agriculture.

James C. Scott

#16. All my life I've felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged."
"Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.

Cassandra Clare

#17. By the standards of the European industrial world we are poor peasants, but when I embrace my grandfather I experience a sense of richness as though I am a note in the heartbeats of the very universe.

Tayeb Salih

#18. We view the world very much as peasants in the countryside have for millennia. they've alsways said that the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, meaning palace intrigues and imperial threats have no impact on their lives.

Lisa See

#19. I heard so many stories from Gaomi's peasants that I had an irrepressible urge to write them down. Today, Gaomi's peasants know that they have become famous around the world through my writings, but I think they are a little puzzled by this.

Mo Yan

#20. I had a different girl to comfort right now.

Tijan

#21. Don't do anything that isn't play

Joseph Campbell

#22. By the toil of others we are led into the presence of things which have been brought from darkness into light. We are excluded from no age, but we have access to them all;

Seneca.

#23. The world is divided between peasants and kings, but the truth is everybody's looking for the same thing.

Eyedea

#24. There was nothing you couldn't accomplish if you crowded a few tens of millions of peasants together on the best land in the world and then never stopped raping their brains out for a thousand years.

Neal Stephenson

#25. You can't see a digital clock because there isn't one

Murray Walker

#26. I called my friend Pari on the way home. "I need you to do my apt."
"I'm not that attracted to your apt."
"I think I'm being bugged."
"Like I am? Right now?

Darynda Jones

#27. Since early middle ages when people generally taking away the barbarity of their like, were pretty content. Although it was all an illicit contentment, what with the slave systems all over the world, in England especially, the peasants and the master, etc. People were incredibly content.

David Bowie

#28. If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#29. I get very weird and defensive about what I'm working on - I wouldn't even tell my secretary what the next page of my novel was about.

Joan Juliet Buck

#30. Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants. The difference in your case is that it's true.

Cassandra Clare

#31. Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Camille Paglia