“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”
Scott Westerfeld book Pretties
Variant: humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Source: Pretties
“There is no greater social evil than religion. It is the cancer in the body of humanity.”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 9, “Evil” (p. 34)
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