Democratic National Peasants

Famous quotes containing the words democratic, national and/or peasants:

    “It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
    —Henry Miller (1891–1980)

    “There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; anything that is national is not scientific.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

    “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.”
    —Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)