“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
Quoted in ABC News "WorkChoices haunt Abbott" http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s2958284.htm on abc.net.au, July 19, 2010. <br class="br">2010
“Let the dead bury the dead? But, the dead can bury no one.”
Alan Charles Kors (1943) American academic
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
Crazy Horse (1840–1877) Oglala Sioux chief
As quoted in National Geographic Vol. CX (July-December 1956), p. 487
“Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.”
Edward Heath (1916–2005) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
Speech in the House of Commons (15 March 1982) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1982/mar/15/budget-resolutions-and-economic-situation <br class="br">Post-Prime Ministerial
“A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead.”
Billy Wilder (1906–2002) American filmmaker
As quoted in Culture and Commitment, 1929-1945 (1973) by Warren Susman, p. 180
Context: A bad play folds and is forgotten, but in pictures we don't bury our dead. When you think it's out of your system, your daughter sees it on television and says, My father is an idiot.
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 98
Murray Bookchin (1921–2006) American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher
Listen, Marxist!