Claims Quote by Cormac McCarthy

I believe in respect for the dead; in fact, I could only respect you if you WERE dead.

— Green Monk

Let our tribute to the dead be a new resolve: to respect people for what they individually think, rather than respect groups for what…

— Richard Dawkins

Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own…

— Anthony Kennedy

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from…

— Aleksandar Hemon

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic…

— Egerton Brydges

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their…

— Gloria Steinem

There might just be a universal expectation to respect the dead, but my work is also born from another aspect of Thai society -…

— Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

It's a taboo subject. How the dead are betrayed by the living. We who are living--we who have survived--understand that our guilt is what…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

— Clarice Lispector

The dead have a presence.

— Don DeLillo

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

— Hamilcar Barca