Authority Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Men after death are understood worse than men of the present, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Men after death ... are understood worse than men of the moment, but heard better.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow…

— Clarice Lispector

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Respect for the dead comes second to respect for the living, and I believe no man's demise exempts him from culpability.”

— Anthony Loyd

Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt…

— Aeschines

“It is eminently reasonable that men should seek to associate with those who share their convictions and values. It is impossible to deal or…

— Ayn Rand

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed…

— Mark Twain

“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for…

— Ernst Jünger

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

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death.

— Robert Green Ingersoll