“Jesus died to save men — a small thing for an immortal to do, & didn't save many, anyway; but if he had been damned for the race that would have been act of a size proper to a god, & would have saved the whole race. However, why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?”
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
“Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U. S. empire”
Hugo Chávez on the Islamic Republic Medal ceremony at Tehran University in Iran. July 30th, 2006. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/30/D8J6NURG0.html
2006
Remark to Thomas Creevey (18 June 1815), using the word nice in an older sense of "uncertain, delicately balanced", about the Battle of Waterloo. Creevy, a civilian, got a public interview with Wellington at headquarters, and quoted the remark in his book Creevey Papers (1903), in Ch. X, on p. 236; the phrase "a damned nice thing" has sometimes been paraphrased as "a damn close-run thing."
“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
On the opposition of Bainimarama, the Military commander, to many of the policies pursued by the present government.
Interview, 11 January 2006
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 81