# Quote — George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

> “There are no atheists in foxholes,” he remembered, but the whole world now was nothing but a huge foxhole! But certainly what had happened did not inspire one to think that God was particularly interested in the human race, or in its individuals.

- Author: [George R. Stewart](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart.md)
- Book: [Earth Abides](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides.md)
- Page: 69
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides/there-are-no-atheists

## More from this book

> What would be the use of all these books now? Why worry about one of them? Why worry about all the millions of them? There was no one left, now, to carry on. Books themselves, mere wood pulp and lampblack, were nothing—without a mind to use them.

p. 292 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides/what-would-be-the.md)

> What a strange thing then is this great civilization, that no sooner have men attained it than they seek to flee from it!

p. 293 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides/what-a-strange.md)

> How then, once overthrown, shall this great civilization, except by renewed Forces and Pressures, ever come again?

p. 294 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-r-stewart/earth-abides/how-then-once.md)