The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
I do not believe in loving enemies; I have pretty hard work to love my friends. Neither do I believe in revenge. No man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored dead. These… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
