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“My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.”

People Said Country Young Song Father Mistake Records Pieces Century Grew Paper Grew Up Sacred Notes Piano Repeats Tunes Heritage Peasants Don't Change Choir Fiddle Gospel Songs

Author:Pete Seeger

“I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.”

Matter Pain Answers Pleasure Half Share Taste Stranger Hungry Gates Intensity Aggression Hunts Palaces Peasants Foraging Half Measures

Book:Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

Source: Migrations of the Heart: An Autobiography

“Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.”

People Ifs Has Beens Country Lasts Heaven Poor Lord Blood Land Fields Arms Battle Hundred Foundation Slave Soldier Bones Sweat Shelter Peasants Mansions Be A Slave Saturated

Author:Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

“Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.”

Source: Nectar in a sieve and related readings

“I cook a little bit. I make a Hungarian dish called chicken paprikash that's out of this world. I'll give a heads-up to all of your readers that it doesn't have to be between Thai and Mexican every night. Toss some Hungarian in every once in a while. You will not be sorry. Good, solid peasant food.”

World Giving Littles Night Bits This World Reader Little Bit Sorry Cooks Chickens Every Night Dishes Mexican Peasants Toss Heads Up Thai Hungarians

Author:Adam Carolla

“In South America euphemism appears to be the grisly preserve of violent power. 'Liberty' was the name of the biggest prison in Uruguay under the military dictatorship, while in Chile one of the concentration camps was called 'Dignity.' It was the self-styled 'Peace and Justice' paramilitary group in Chiapas [Mexico] that in 1997 shot 45 peasants in the back, nearly all of them women and children, as they prayed in a church. What have the souls of the south done over the past few decades to deserve quite so much liberty and dignity and peace and justice?”

“Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thousand men.”

Men Hard Spirit Ten Deny Sand Peasants Samurai Resolute

Author:Yoshida Shoin

“There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.”

World Book War Running House Written Week Smell France War Of The Worlds Kitchen Description Passages Cheese Unbelievable Eastern Peasants Second World War Pigeons Fondue

Author:Sebastian Faulks

“But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.”

People Kind Littles States Shows America Understanding United United States Worst Conscious Europe Primitive Charming Spain Peasants Superstitious Desolation Deserted Oasis

Author:Aleister Crowley

“I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.”

Feels Children Littles Country Force Seeing Air Military Proud Enormous Our Country Bombs Target Village Hitting Peasants Bombing Air Force Pitiful Vietnamese

Author:Howard Zinn

“Hundreds of thousands and millions of wage slaves of capital and peasants downtrodden by the serf-owners are going to the slaughter for the dynastic interests of a handful of crowned brigands, for the profits of the bourgeoisie in its drive to plunder foreign lands.”

Interest Millions Land Slave Profit Owners Handful Peasants Slaughter Bourgeoisie Plunder Downtrodden Foreign Lands Serfs Wage Slaves

Author:Vladimir Lenin

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

Modern Modern Life Peasants Moron Primates

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Basically the French are all peasants.”

Peasants

Book:A Picasso bestiary

Source: A Picasso bestiary

“The sacrifice to Legba was completed; the Master of the Crossroads had taken the loas' mysterious routes back to his native Guinea. Meanwhile, the feast continued. The peasants were forgetting their misery: dance and alcohol numbed them, carrying away their shipwrecked conscience in the unreal and shady regions where the savage madness of the African gods lay waiting.”

Religion Waiting Forget Taken Sacrifice Masters Conscience Madness Lays Misery Alcohol Mysterious Native Regions Savages Routes Peasants Unreal Crossroads Shady Guinea

Author:Jacques Roumain

“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.”

People World Age Middle Masters England Slave Etc Contentment Middle Ages Peasants Barbarity

Author:David Bowie

“A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.”

Together Names Wife Queens Virtuous Contests Peasants

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?”

Wells Moral Sweet Medicine Why Not Peasants Garments

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.”

People Believe Suffering Individual I Believe Integrity Salvation I Believe In Complaining Russia Oppression Lazy Individualism Peasants Hysterical Uneducated Hypocritical Discrete

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.”

Country School Church Class Drink Drinking Neighbor Stealing Commit Belonging Bottles Peasants Vodka Communes Country Life Taverns Arson

Author:Anton Chekhov

“Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.”

Men World Mind Has Beens Women Feet Victory Lays Glad Muscles Peasants Monarchs Loveliness

Book:Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

Source: Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to

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

Girl Easier Peasants

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.”

Fighting Poor Rich Committees Peasants Shackles

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you have to know them. No one is more sensitive to what gives man the right to call himself a man: good-heartedness, bravery and virile brotherhood.”

Knows Men Giving Heart Hard Bravery Appearance Sensitive Brotherhood Thick Awkward Rude Peasants Hardened Hard Life

Author:Jacques Roumain

“The time will come, when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-drawn battle in the skies. While aged peasants, too amazed for words, Stare at the flying fleets of wondrous birds.”

Long Eye Watches Sky Battle Bird Flying Lifts Staring Aviation Amazed Peasants Wondrous Airpower

Author:Thomas Gray

“Every peasant cuisine has incredible ingenious tricks for getting a lot of nutrition out of a small amount of ingredients. There are people who don't have the money to invest in better food, but perhaps they have the time. There's a trade-off: The more time you're willing to put into food preparation, the less money you have to spend.”

People Willing Amount Trade Incredibles Tricks Preparation More Time Ingredients Nutrition Peasants Ingenious Cuisine Small Amounts Trade Offs

Author:Michael Pollan

“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.”

People World Want Feels Littles Long Different Sometimes Reason Asks Poor Drug Empty Thirds Plant Peasants Wrong Things Third World Wrong Reasons

Author:George Carlin

“I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants.”

Millions India Trade Raised Ruins Immoral Peasants Lancashire

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

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

Cutting Equality Peasants Cutting Off

Book:The Penguin Gandhi Reader

Source: The Penguin Gandhi Reader

“I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different.”

“Modern abstract art starts in Russia in about 1915 with Malevich, and then the Russian Revolution happens, and eventually all that experimental art gets squashed and social realism comes back into play. All of a sudden, Malevich is no longer painting black squares; he's painting peasants in colorful schmattas.”

Art Play Happens Social Black Modern Painting Revolution Russia Abstract Squares Realism Peasants Colorful Abstract Art Russian Revolution

Author:Robert Longo

“Finally 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.”

World Would Be Careers Study Decided Population Worthy Agriculture Honorable Peasants

Author:James C. Scott

“With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.”

World Two Country Together Justice Leader Around The World African American Usa Indigenous Peasants Equality And Justice Two Countries Bolivia

Author:Evo Morales

“These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by the sun to words of living green; This is the scholar whose immortal penSpells the first lesson hunger taught to men; These are the lines that heaven-commanded Toil Shows on his deed, - the charter of the soil!”

Men Life Firsts Shows Hands Heaven Lines Sun Changed Taught Kings Lessons Pages Garden Labor Letters Green Hunger Deeds Golden Soil Immortal Scholar Toil Peasants Charter Sturdy

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.”

Mother Mom Immigrants Motivated Peasants Garments

Author:Al Lewis

“The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.”

Games Grows Sports Enjoy Party Cutting Wonderful Sweet Beats Aim Brilliant Range Bags Autumn Corn Jackets Peasants Feats Mellow Sportsman Fall Autumn Pointers Poachers Pheasants

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.”

Sports Brilliant Brown Autumn Nuts Peasants Fall Autumn Poachers Pheasants

Author:Lord Byron

“Whoever wrote Shakespeare is a working class hero be he an aristocrat or a peasant. Shakespeare is a great leveler. We're presented with kings, queens, emperors and giants who feel the same things as everyone else: jealousy, love, anger, bitterness, grief, loss.”

Feels Loss Grief Class Kings Hero Queens Giants Bitterness Working Class Peasants Emperor Grief Loss Love Jealousy Anger Love Working Class Hero

Author:Rhys Ifans

“Government can only do two things: It can beat people up and kill them. Or it can threaten to do so. When it seems to be doing something else - for example, handing out money or, say, surplus cheese - what's actually going on is that something has been taken away from one set of individuals by deadly force or the threat of deadly force, a hefty middleman's fee deducted, and whatever is left thrown to peasants delighted to receive stolen goods.”

People Has Beens Two Seems Government Individual Left Force Taken Example Beats Threat Two Things Thrown Goods Cheese Stolen Peasants Delighted Fees Surplus Middlemen Deadly Force

Author:L. Neil Smith

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

Want Left Peasants Left Alone

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.”

Men War Literature Grief Streets Color Kings Conflict Ships Sail Closets Palaces Peasants Woven Cheerfulness Bark Merchants Cottages

Author:Theodore Parker

“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.”

Running Oil Ignorant Peasants Navel

Author:Garrison Keillor

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

Walking Royalty Peasants

Author:Scott Disick

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

Remember Bread Peasants Hardworking

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.”

Play Sports Swim Peasants

Author:Mao Zedong

“To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.”

“Well, I am ploughing on my canvases as they do on their fields (the peasants). It goes badly enough in our profession - in fact that has always been so, but at the moment it is very bad.”

Wells Enough Moments Facts Fields Profession Peasants Ploughing

Book:Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

“Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group.”

Men Given Animal Democracy Groups Theory Equal Assumption Mathematician Maximum Peasants Wisest Wisest Man Additives

Book:Glory Road

Source: Glory Road

“We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.”

Doe Made War Suffering Schemes Knights Peasants Outlaw Alleviate

Book:The Oxford History of English Literature

Source: The Oxford History of English Literature

“The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you take a look at them . . . Liberation theology, in Brazil particularly, brought the actual Gospel to peasants. They said, let's read what the Gospels say, and try to act on the principles they describe. That was the major crime that set off the Reagan wars of terror.”

Ifs Trying Looks Said War Principles Crime Materials Majors Terror Theology Radical Liberation They Said Peasants Brazil Pacifist

Author:Noam Chomsky

“By trying to adjust to the findings that it once tried so viciously to ban and repress, religion has only succeeded in restating the same questions that undermined it in earlier epochs. What kind of designer or creator is so wasteful and capricious and approximate? What kind of designer or creator is so cruel and indifferent? And - most of all - what kind of designer or creator only chooses to "reveal" himself to semi-stupefied peasants in desert regions?”

Trying Kind Findings Creator Desert Designer Regions Indifferent Peasants Bans Capricious

Book:The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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