Benefit of the doubt Quote by Samuel Butler

The dead should not rule the living

— Thomas Jefferson

There's a sort of decency among the dead, a remarkable discretion: you never find them making any complaint against the doctor who killed them!

— Moliere

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

— Manuel Azana

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

— Voltaire

“I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system…

— Neil Gaiman

“Should they inquire of the Dead on account of the Living?”

— Isaiah

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living

— Confucius

I do not think we should reward murderers by keeping them alive in air conditioned prisons where they are fed everyday. If they are…

— Glen Rambharack

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

— Mark Twain

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

“The dead are mute, but the living still have voice with which to protest their innocence. Often their objections are noisy and pious, impossible…

— Sue Grafton