Peasantry Quotes

“Instead of a President whom he'd never see and or representatives he'd never meet, the peasant had a single lord. This lord was a local master whom he knew by sight even though he had no television or newspaper. This proximity allowed for an organic familiarity between ruler and ruled. They were not "on a first name basis," of course, but they were acquainted in the sense that they could be rightly considered "neighbors," even if they were not equals. This organic familiarity meant that the peasant paid his taxes in person, complained in person, and if need be he hung the lord from a local tree in person.”
― Daniel Schwindt, The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought

“The latter class [peasants] is always unaffected by the course of historic events. Like cats who are attached to a house and not to the people who dwell in it, the poorer type of peasant belongs less to the nation than to the soil. Therefore, however numerous they are, they never constitute a danger for a conqueror.”
― Franz Werfel, Jeremias, höret die Stimme

“Good God, Bertil, don't be daft. Peasants are like children. They love to frighten one another.”
― Roxanne Moreil, L'âge d'or. Volume 1