#peasant

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. ↗

— Jules Renard

#peasants #nature

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

#becomes #connected #difficult #fond #glad

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#believe #could #dreamed #eagle #fly

The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#conscience #dignity #harmony #intelligentsia #live

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

— Mao Zedong

#capitalism #peasants #serious #tendency #toward

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#happiest #his #home #king #peace

Remember the valiant Iraqi peasant and how he shot down an American Apache with an old weapon. ↗

— Saddam Hussein

#apache #down #how #iraqi #old

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. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#algeria #am #born #came #city

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

— Eugene Chadbourne

#bridges #building #died #folk #folk songs

I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty I'm Indebted to rest respecting it truly ↗

— Criss Jami

#art #beauty #creation #creativity #credit