#peasants

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#after #development #due #easy #long

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#attitude #dark #dark ages #him #i

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. ↗

— Gavrilo Princip

#happening #i #i am #know #nothing

These romantic visions of the peasantry were constantly undone by contact with reality, often with devastating consequences for their bearers. The populists, who invested much of themselves in their conception of the peasants, suffered the most in this respect, since the disintegration of that conception threatened to undermine not only their radical beliefs but also their own self-identity. ↗

— Orlando Figes

#populists #respect

The 'noble savage' whom the Populists had seen in the simple peasant was, as Gorky now concluded, no more than a romantic illusion. And the more he experienced the everyday life of the peasant, the more he denounced them as savage and barbaric. ↗

— Orlando Figes

#romantic

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. ↗

— Walter Annenberg

#arrived #because #before #desirous #few

Give the peasants neither life nor death. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#give #life #neither #nor #peasants

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. ↗

— Islom Karimov

#advent #aspirations #beginning #come #creators

And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#belgium #case #countries #everywhere #five

The master and mistress of the house and the rest of the Blood -even the Crux himself- brought our food, poured the wine, did our bidding. The centerpiece was a roasted stag. crowned with gilded antlers and stuffed with songbirds; they had hunted well. We were forbidden to kill the deer that fattened on our coleworts and stole our grain, and the venison tasted all the better for the salt of revenge. ↗

— Sarah Micklem

#feast #peasants #revenge #venison #food