Damned Human Race Quotes

• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Brother, Cutting

  "Man's Place in the Animal World" (ca. 1896)

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• The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Bullying, Laughter

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.35, St. Martin's Press

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• Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

  Mark Twain

  Bags, Damn, Humans

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational Sports, Lying

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  Mark Twain

  Art, Philosophy, Animal

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.291, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Atheist, Animal

  "The Lowest Animal" (1940)

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• The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Humans, Ought

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Coward, Human Condition

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  Edward Abbey

  Love, Loyalty, Spiritual

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.92, Big Earth Publishing

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• The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.

  Ray Bradbury

  Race, People, Insane

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