Crime Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

He who commends the brutalities of the past, sows the seeds of future crimes.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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