Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I know of no crime that has not been defended by the church, in one form or other. The church is not… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Everyone should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort. As long as it is considered disgraceful… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the… — Robert Green Ingersoll 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
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Image
