“Help save the world!”

— Larry Wall

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American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl 1954

Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) Christian comics writer

" Meet Jack Chick https://web.archive.org/web/20110423142950/http://members.cox.net/jimmyakin/x-meet-jack-chick.htm," an interview with Jimmy Akin (2004)

“When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Now, my friends, can this country be saved upon that basis? If it can, I will consider myself one of the happiest men in the world if I can help to save it. If it can't be saved upon that principle, it will be truly awful. But, if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle. I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than to surrender it.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Some historians have opined that the assassination quip was in response to an assassination threat Lincoln had been notified about earlier.
1860s, Speech in Independence Hall (1861)

“We're not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth (book), p.183
Context: Moyers: Unlike heroes such as Prometheus or Jesus, we're not going on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves.
Campbell: But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes, there's no doubt about it. The world without spirit is a wasteland. People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

“You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all.”

Isaac Asimov book The Gentle Vultures

"The Gentle Vultures" in Super-Science Fiction (December 1957)
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“Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Source: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

“Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.”

Thomas Keneally book Schindler's Ark

Source: Schindler's List

“We not only saved the world, er, saved the banks...”

Gordon Brown (1951) British Labour Party politician

" We not only saved the world... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7775515.stm", BBC News, 10 December 2008
Prime Minister

“The telephone companies that were alleged to have helped their country after 9/11 did so because they are patriotic and they certainly helped us and they helped us save lives.”

Dana Perino (1972) Former White House Press Secretary

Press Briefing, referring to the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy, February 12, 2008 http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/02/on-cusp-of-sena/ http://mediamatters.org/blog/200802130006

“Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

All the Trouble in the World (1994)

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