“Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive. If only the dead could talk, eh, Lucian?”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion.”
2000s
Context: Antonin Scalia: It's erected as a war memorial. I assume it is erected in honor of all of the war dead. It's the — the cross is the — is the most common symbol of — of — of the resting place of the dead, and it doesn't seem to me — what would you have them erect? A cross — some conglomerate of a cross, a, and you know, a Moslem half moon and star?
Peter Eliasberg: Well, Justice Scalia, if I may go to your first point. The cross is the most common symbol of the resting place of Christians. I have been in Jewish cemeteries. There is never a cross on a tombstone of a Jew. [Laughter. ] So it is the most common symbol to honor Christians.
Antonin Scalia: I don't think you can leap from that to the conclusion that the only war dead that that cross honors are the Christian war dead. I think that's an outrageous conclusion.
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“Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.”
George Santayana
(1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Attributed to Plato by General Douglas MacArthur, earliest source found is work of George Santayana who doesn't attribute it to anyone. Plato and his dialogues by Bernard SUZANNE, "Frequently Asked Questions about Plato : Did Plato write "Only the dead have seen the end of war"?" http://plato-dialogues.org/faq/faq008.htm
Source: Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922), "Tipperary"
Cesare Pavese
(1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Ending words
The house on the hill (1949)
“Only the dead can be forgiven;
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.”
I, st. 4
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), A Dialogue of Self and Soul http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1397/
Context: My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows
And falls into the basin of the mind
That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,
For intellect no longer knows
Is from the Ought, or knower from the Known —
That is to say, ascends to Heaven;
Only the dead can be forgiven;
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.
“I think if you don't have some obsession in your life, you're dead.”
Neil Young
(1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Antonin Scalia
(1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Speech at Thomas Jefferson High School in Alexandria, Virginia (April 2008). http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/04/no_to_cameras_yes_to_60_minute.html
2000s
Helen Keller
(1880–1968) American author and political activist
Helen Keller: Her Socialist Years (1967)
Emilio De Bono
(1866–1944) Italian General
To Mussolini. Quoted in "Lion by the tail: the story of the Italian-Ethiopian War" - Page 32 - by Thomas M. Coffey - History - 1974
David Lynch
(1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in "Dark Lens on America" in The New York Times Magazine (14 January 1990)