Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Ending words
The house on the hill (1949)
“Only the dead are safe; only the dead have seen the end of war.”
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"
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Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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.
Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018) American journalist
Column, January 2, 2009, "Moral clarity in Gaza" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer010209.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s, 2009
“It is never the machines that are dead.
It is only the mechanically-minded men that are dead.”
Gerald Stanley Lee (1862–1944) Americna minister
Book II, Chapter V.
Crowds (1913)
“While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none.”
Theocritus ancient greek poet
Idyll 4, line 42; translation by A. S. F. Gow, from Theocritus ([1950] 1952) vol. 1, p. 37.
Compare Cicero (1st century BC), Epistolarum ad Atticum [Epistle To Atticus], Book IX, 10, 4: Ægroto, dum anima est, spes est [While the sick man has life, there is hope.]
Idylls
“Better stupid and safe that smart and dead.”
Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist
Source: Sweep: Volume 1
“Only the dead have discovered what they cannot live without.”
James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“Only the dead find peace, only the living desire it.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy: Volume 2 (2022)
