Axes Quotes
Quotes on axes to grind and hidden motives.
Most of these quotes use 'axes' figuratively, as in having no axes to grind, with one person explaining they're avoiding interviews and publicity junkets entirely rather than pushing any hidden agenda. Another notes that support for open speech tends to be widespread only when nobody actually has a real grievance to push.
We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords...
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
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We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers...
Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
Battle Quotes
About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead.
