Synonyms for peasants
peas·ants

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1. List of paraphrases for "peasants":

   farmers, campesinos, campesino

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1. Conrad Hughes Hilton:

   I will fucking own anyone on this flight; they are fucking peasants.

2. Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables":

   The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

3. Doris Lessing:

   This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we --we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

4. Noam Chomsky:

   Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.

5. John Bolton:

   The fashion in the European Union: When the people vote the wrong way from the way the elites want to go, it's to make the peasants vote again and again until they get it right.