The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves. — Robert Green Ingersoll Church Copy Share Image
The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheist Copy Share Image
No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll Humor Copy Share Image
The time to be happy is now, and the place to be happy is here. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Few rich men own their property; their property owns them. — Robert Green Ingersoll Men Copy Share Image
I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom. — Robert Green Ingersoll Catholic Copy Share Image
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. — Robert Green Ingersoll Dollars Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anger Copy Share Image
I find that in this day and generation, the meanest men have the lowest estimate of woman; that the greater the man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there is a God who will damn his children forever, I would rather go to hell than to go to heaven… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Common sense Copy Share Image
If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
The minister asks, 'What right have you to hope? It is sacrilegious to you.' But, whether the clergy like it or not,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less… — Robert Green Ingersoll Brain Copy Share Image
As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abhorrence Copy Share Image
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man… — 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 Belief 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
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Ambition Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Abhorrence Copy Share Image
The Emperor Constantine, who lifted Christianity into power, murdered his wife Fausta, and his eldest son Crispus, the same year that he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Christ 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 Altars Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — Robert Green Ingersoll Breathing life Copy Share Image
There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Acceptance Copy Share Image
Most men are followers, and implicitly rely upon the judgment of others. They mistake solemnity for wisdom, and regard a grave countenance… — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed. — Robert Green Ingersoll Action Copy Share Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Education Copy Share Image
Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present. — Robert Green Ingersoll Life Copy Share Image
No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
