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Quotes About Winnowed

With relentless selectivity, the Communist machine has winnowed out the grain and retained only the chaff of Western culture.
~ Richard Crossman
In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out. At least, it has been interesting, if not comfortable, to witness a Gotterdammerung.' 'A what?' 'A dusk of the gods. Unfortunately, we Southerners did think we were gods.
~ Margaret Mitchell
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
~ Isaiah 30:24