2,939 Quotes About Cutting

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.

Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Drama is real life with all the boring parts cut out.

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Making a film means, first of all, to tell a story. That story can be an improbable one, but it should never be banal. It must be dramatic and human. What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out?

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.