Synonyms for peasants
peas·ants

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1. List of paraphrases for "peasants":

   farmers, campesinos, campesino

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1. Forest McDonald:

   Americans who had traveled in Europe knew the 'free' European peasants suffered considerably greater oppression and misery than did American bondsman. Modern scholarship has shown that the exploitation rate -- the percentage of the worker's production that was taken from him by his owners -- was lower among the slaves than among European peasants, that work loads were light, and that slaves actually experienced a considerable measure of personal freedom.

2. Michel de Montaigne:

   I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

3. Lyle David Solomon:

   The scheme ultimately came to light on that Friday in September, throwing the stock market into rapid decline and bankrupting everybody from Wall Street millionaires to poor citizens, the stock market plummeted by 20%, and foreign trading ceased. The value of wheat and corn harvests dropped by half for peasants.

4. Conrad Hughes Hilton:

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

5. 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.