“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

“Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand.- "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts”

“If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.”

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

“Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.”

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

“The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.”