# Quote — James Morrow, The Wine of Violence

> A second slash ended the monster’s misery. So, he thought, this is how my Earthling ancestors ran their affairs. This is how lands were won, empires expanded, insurrections resisted, prisoners taken, slaves kept, heretics converted, captives made loquacious. For the first time in his life, Minnix felt himself a part of history.
>
> History, he decided, was a terrible idea.

- Author: [James Morrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow.md)
- Book: [The Wine of Violence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence.md)
- Page: 223
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_K._Morrow#The_Wine_of_Violence_(1981)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-morrow/the-wine-of-violence/a-second-slash

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> “Zolmec,” said Nazra, “has always taught that the greatest words are ‘I could very well be wrong.’”

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> It was not a question of regressive old ideas versus enlightened new ideas, but of reasonable caution versus arrogant caprice.

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