Famous quotes containing the words national and/or peasants:
“The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“But the peasants—how do the peasants die?”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)