If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

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Jesus Christianity

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Thomas Carlyle

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English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Philosopher Writer

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Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Quoted in Carlyle at his Zenith, by David Alec Wilson. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1927.

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It is not what a man outwardly has or wants that constitutes the happiness or misery of him. Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Thomas Carlyle

Chartism

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Injustice Adversity

Author

Thomas Carlyle
Source
Chartism
Language
English
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

Another quote from the 1880s

Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Sadism

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Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1884, pt. 2.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 2.

Another quote about Jesus

Jesus loves me, this I know,
For the Bible tells me so.

Anna Bartlett Warner

The Love of Jesus

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Anna Bartlett Warner
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The Love of Jesus
Medium
Hymn Song
Language
English
Time
1860 1860s 19th century
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Citation

Warner, Anna Bartlett. Quoted in "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know." Say and Seal, written by Susan Warner. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1860.