By nature all people are alike, but by education become different — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action. — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven. — Robert Green Ingersoll Earth Copy Share Image
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 Damnation Copy Share Image
Twenty years after the death of Luther there were more Catholics than when he was born. And twenty years after the death… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak — Robert Green Ingersoll Heresy Copy Share Image
If this religion is true, then there is only one Savior, only one narrow path to life. Christianity cannot live in peace… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christian life 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
The object of all education should be to increase the usefulness of man - usefulness to himself and others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Barbarism Copy Share Image
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Intelligence, integrity and courage are the great pillars that support the State. Above all, the citizens of a free nation should honor… — Robert Green Ingersoll Courage Copy Share Image
The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless… — Robert Green Ingersoll Advantage Copy Share Image
No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find… — Robert Green Ingersoll Care Copy Share Image
If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abuse Copy Share Image
And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I say, let us think. Let each one express his thought. Let us become investigators, not followers, not cringers and crawlers. If… — Robert Green Ingersoll Cowards Copy Share Image
The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism 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 Afterlife Copy Share Image
Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue… — Robert Green Ingersoll Acquisition Copy Share Image
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons,… — 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 is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurdity Copy Share Image
While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only… — Robert Green Ingersoll Another world Copy Share Image
Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurdity Copy Share Image
