Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests? — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
...in every religion the priest insists on five things - First: There is a God. Second: He has made known his will.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If priests had not been fond of mutton, lambs never would have been sacrified to god. Nothing was ever carried to the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — 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
