Atheist Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

9 Atheist quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ingersoll, the “Great Agnostic,” wielded rhetoric like a courtroom advocate. These nine excerpts reveal his confident, rational voice that championed reason over creed at a time when such views sparked controversy.

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Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity.

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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.

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I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

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The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

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For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of…

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When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain,…

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Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!…

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Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.

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Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.

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It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to…

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When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men…

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In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one…

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