Brutality Quote by Frank Herbert

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

“Death did this to people: making cowards, scapegoats, preachers and mourners of the living; while the dead – ignoble or not – became objects…

— Meghna Pant

“It is always easy to mock 'distress,' but we are its contemporaries; we are at the endpoint of what Nous, ratio, & Logos, still…

— Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“Those who have died live in coffins while those who live die in waiting for death. Some people wait patiently for death to come,…

— Jules Haigler

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or…

— William Hazlitt

The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on the level…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

“The world at large is not easily moved to action; it requires many terrible martyrdoms to disturb its equilibrium of dullness; and even when…

— Francisco Ferrer Guardia

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to…

— Davy Crockett

We treated all of the dead with dignity.

— Harry Anderson

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

— Mother Jones

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but…

— Muriel Rukeyser