
Quoted in http://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&q="I+could+prove+God+statistically"&pg=PA298#v=onepage Readers Digest (October 1943)
Quoted in http://books.google.com/books?id=ck6bXqt5shkC&q="I+could+prove+God+statistically"&pg=PA298#v=onepage Readers Digest (October 1943)
“The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.”
Being from Manson's Fight Song of Holy Wood, this is actually a quote from German writer Erich Maria Remarque, also often misattributed to Josef Stalin.
Misattributed
“To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
As quoted in Chance Rules : An Informal Guide to Probability, Risk, and Statistics (1999) by Brian Everitt, p. 137
“The death of one man is a just death, the death of two millions is a statistic.”
Aber das ist wohl so, weil ein einzelner immer der Tod ist — und zwei Millionen immer nur eine Statistik.
Der schwarze Obelisk (1956)
A variant of this quote "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is just a statistic." has also been attributed to Joseph Stalin, but no source for this has been found. This version appeared in the English press not later than 1958. (Ремарк, Эрих Мария // Словарь современных цитат / составитель К. В. Душенко — Москва: изд-во «Эксмо», 2006)
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8