“No one who writes a good book is really dead.”
Walter Moers (1957) German comic creator and author
Original: (pt) Bandido bom é bandido morto!
(pt) Source: [9 December 2009, Morre Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, dono do bordão 'bandido bom é bandido morto', https://extra.globo.com/tv-e-lazer/morre-luiz-carlos-alborghetti-dono-do-bordao-bandido-bom-bandido-morto-209786.html, Portuguese, Extra, Editora Globo S/A, 31 March 2019]
“No one who writes a good book is really dead.”
Walter Moers (1957) German comic creator and author
“No sentimentality, comrade… The only good human being is a dead one.”
George Orwell book Animal Farm
Variant: The only good human being is a dead one.
Source: Animal Farm
Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director
Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
Walter Model (1891–1945) German field marshal
To Colonel Theodor Pilling, Lieutenant Colonel Roger Michael, Major Winrich Behr in the evening of April 20, 1945. They tuned in the Wehrmacht receiver, and listened Joseph Goebbels's speech marking the Hitler's Birthday. Quoted in "Battle for the Ruhr" - Page 378 - by Derek S. Zumbro - 2006
“They say you shouldn't say nothin' about the dead unless it's good. He's dead. Good!”
Moms Mabley (1894–1975) American comedian and actress
1,001 Insults, Put-Downs, and Comebacks, Price, Steven, 2007, Globe Pequot, 312 http://books.google.com/books?id=4gLQlHab4NsC&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=%22They+say+you+shouldn't+say+nothin'+about+the+dead+unless+it's+good.+He's+dead.+Good!%22&source=bl&ots=vc8aIflDYJ&sig=uoSv1BYEAN6E6EWcWCWxZEnbOLg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lIWCUpmQPNGpsATX-IHQBQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ,
“It is quite normal to be racist, but it is criminal to remain one.”
Pierre Bourgault (1934–2003) Canadian politician
Il est presque normal d'être raciste, mais il est criminel de le demeurer.
La Culture. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.297, tome 2
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Erich Fromm book Escape from Freedom
Source: Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 7
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay