“Who would be so besotted as to die without having made at least the round of this, his prison?”

Replying to a question about the secularization of Western culture in a meeting with a group of priests on circa May 2010.
Source: The Myth and the Reality of 'I'll Die in My Bed', Tim Drake, National Catholic Register, October 24, 2012, November 21, 2014 http://www.ncregister.com/blog/tim-drake/the-myth-and-the-reality-of-ill-die-in-my-bed,

Source: Doctor Zhivago

As quoted in obituaries (7 September 1962)
Variant: God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Source: Out of Africa

Source: City of Lost Souls

Source: The Book Thief

Jeffersonian Principles and Hamiltonian Principles, p. xvii (1932)

Reported in Janelle Rohr, Animal rights: opposing viewpoints (1989), p. 100; Jane Goodall and Jennifer Lindsey, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe (1999), p. 6. Occasionally misreported in truncated form, as "The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves", in, e.g., quote honored on XOEarth eco money http://xoearth.org/jane-goodall/

But that was a false image of God. The way Anton LaVey saw God also affected his view of Satan.
Open Letter To Satanists

Speech (17 June 1975), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1970s