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"But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again."
"The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest."
"All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth. Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
"You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race."
"Chris Christie has been saying for a long time he's not interested in running. The media is trying to create a story by sucking Chris Christie into race, just like they made a story by sucking Rick Perry into the race."
"And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race.""
"It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial."
"I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me."
"Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech."
"I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way."
"Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and 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, and would have saved the whole race."
"We need not worry so much about what man descends from; it's what he descends to that shames the human race."
"Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?"
"Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?"
"when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."
"The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
"The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously."
"For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!"
"When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?"
"The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."
