„Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man.“

„The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.“

—  Clifford D. Simak American writer, journalist 1904 - 1988

“The Autumn Land” (p. 250); originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1971
Short Fiction, Skirmish (1977)

„Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.“

—  Kurt Vonnegut, book A Man Without a Country

A Man Without a Country (2005)

„The president, comparing him to a kid in the back of a classroom, I think, is very indicative of the president’s lack of appreciation of who Vladimir Putin is. He’s an old KGB colonel that has no illusions about our relationship, does not care about a relationship with the United States, continues to oppress his people, continues to act in an autocratic fashion.“

—  John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018

As quoted in "McCain: Obama's 'slouch' comment dismissive of Putin" http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08/11/mccain-obamas-slouch-comment-dismissive-of-putin/, (11 August 2013), The Washington Post
2010s, 2013

„Death is sweeter than continued life under tyranny. … Retaliation is a prescription from God. … We must rise up and kill those who kill us... Let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling.“

—  Louis Farrakhan leader of the Nation of Islam 1933

August 15, 2015 http://www.wnd.com/wnd_video/farrakhan-retaliation-we-must-rise-up-and-kill-those-who-kill-us/ (15 August 2015)

„People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think.“

—  George Carlin American stand-up comedian 1937 - 2008

„Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.“

—  Rudyard Kipling English short-story writer, poet, and novelist 1865 - 1936

The Light That Failed http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/TheLightThatFailed/index.html, ch. 11 (1890-1891).
Other works

„Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian.“

—  Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947

Possibly said by Hugh Allen, printed in Reader's Digest (Jan. 1967)
Misattributed

„Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are“

—  Jeannette Walls, book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

„It was not the kind of surroundings in which any one with free will — if such a man existed — would have chosen to await death.“

—  Graham Greene, book The Honorary Consul

The Honorary Consul (1973)

„By 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.“

—  John McCain politician from the United States 1936 - 2018

As quoted in NewsHour with Jim Lehrer http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/mccain_8-1.html (1 August 2000).
2000s

„My voice is still for war.
Gods! Can a Roman senate long debate
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?“

—  Joseph Addison, book Cato

Act II, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
Context: My voice is still for war.
Gods! Can a Roman senate long debate
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?
No, let us rise at once,
Gird on our swords, and,
At the head of our remaining troops, attack the foe,
Break through the thick array of his throng'd legions,
And charge home upon him.
Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest,
May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.

„It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.“

—  Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

The Story of an Unknown Man or An Anonymous Story, ch. 15 (1893)

„To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious…. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.“

—  Garrett Fort screenwriter 1900 - 1945

Dracula, talking to Lucy and Mina at the opera
Dracula (1931)

„The great stoic Seneca repeatedly urged his fellow Romans to retire in order to “find themselves,” as we might put it. In the Renaissance, as in ancient Rome, it was part of the well-managed life. You had your period of civic business, then you withdrew to discover what life was really about and to being the long process of preparing for death. Montaigne developed reservations about the second part of this, but there is no doubt about his interest in contemplating life. He wrote: “Let us cut loose from all the ties that bind us to others; let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease.”“

—  Sarah Bakewell, book How to Live

Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 29.

„I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk.“

—  Scott Ritter American weapons inspector and writer 1961

Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/21/143259
2006

„Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.“

—  Jon Krakauer, book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

„Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.“

—  Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Canto 9, stanza 40
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

„Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.“

—  Gracie Allen American actress and comedienne 1902 - 1964

Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 1 : Government jobs pay big money
Context: Who am I to talk? That’s a fair question, and one which deserves a better answer than I can give you. … Come to think of it, who are you? Whoever you are, I sympathize with you. I sympathize with everybody; that’s what I get for being a candidate myself. Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him.
But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me.

„I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.“

—  Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904

Letter to A.S. Suvorin (October 27, 1888)
Letters