“It would be almost unbelievable, if history did not record the tragic fact, that men have gone to war and cut each other's throats because they could not agree as to what was to become of them after their throats were cut.”
State v. Beal http://books.google.com/books?id=lEFOAQAAIAAJ&q=%22it+would+be+almost+unbelievable+if+history+did+not+record+the+tragic+fact+that+men+have+gone+to+war+and+cut+each+other's+throats+because+they+could+not+agree+as+to+what+was+to+become+of+them+after+their+throats+were+cut%22&pg=PA302#v=onepage, 199 N.C. 278 (1930).
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Walter P. Stacy1
American judge 1884–1951Related quotes
““That your solution to everything? Cut somebody’s throat?”
“Always slows them down.””
Source: Dreams of Steel (1990), Chapter 10 (p. 258)
Charles Haughey (1925–2006) Irish politician
The Flawed Chieftain http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/niall_stanage/2006/06/the_flawed_chieftain.html (The Guardian 'Comment is Free') <br class="br">In an interview with Hot Press magazine
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Samuel Marchbanks' Almanack (1967)
“108. A Fool’s Tongue is long enough to cut his own Throat.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Variant: Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 9: A View to a Death
Roman Polanski (1933) Polish-French film director, producer, writer, actor, and rapist
"Roman Polanski: An Exclusive Interview" by Taylor Montague
Context: You know, whenever you do something new and original, people run to see it because it's different. Then, if it happens to be successful, the studios rush to imitate it. It becomes commonplace right away. But it's been like that before, I think. Now, the stakes are so gigantic that they cut each other's throats. So if most of the films are failures, then those that succeed so spectacularly, so commercially, become the norm. It's like a roulette for the studios. The problem with it is that it becomes more and more of a committee. Before, you dealt with the studio. It had one or two persons and now you have masses of executives who have to justify their existence and write so-called "creative notes" and have creative meetings. They obsess about the word creative probably because they aren't.
“It wouldn’t be the first time his sharp tongue had cut his own throat.”
Brent Weeks book The Way of Shadows
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 9 (p. 64)