A Quote by Steven Heighton

The idiot willingness to choose sides is what feeds the abattoir of history.

Steven Heighton

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Steven Heighton
Canadian - Writer
Born: August 14, 1961

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.

Gretel Ehrlich

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

Seamus Heaney

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

Karl Marx

History, in other words, is just a device to be used by well-paid boobherds to drive the American cattle in bovine content to their pastures or to the abattoir.

Revilo P. Oliver

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Jesse Jackson

I think that wars will never stop, it's just that there are sides. You have to choose your side. And there are more progressive sides.

Gaspar Noe

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

Seamus Heaney

There's good sides and bad sides to life and you're going to come up against obstacles. The only way you get through them is your passion level for the path that you choose.

Bruce Buffer

There's Insanity on Both Sides of the Debate When You Argue with an Idiot.

Ernie J Zelinski

People have presences, both online and in real life. You can choose to show everything, meaning all sides of you, or you can choose to be selective.

Kevin Systrom

Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in.

Diane Lane

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Corrie Ten Boom

There is kind of this spirit in journalism to tell both sides of the story and to just let the listeners choose what they want to choose, and I understand that, and there's a place for it, but on some issues, we really do need to take a stand.

Shaun King

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

Roland Joffe

Who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets fooled by the idiot?

Woody Allen

For those of us who got into good colleges or the professions, did we stand up to that high school history teacher who told us some ridiculous lie about American history and say, "That's a ridiculous lie. You're an idiot"? No. We said, "All right, I'll keep quiet, and I'll write it in the exam and I'll think, yes, he's an idiot." And it's easy to say and believe things that improve your self-image and your career and that are in other ways beneficial to yourselves.

Noam Chomsky

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