Duty Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

13 Duty quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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For a brief yet potent look at humanist ethics, Robert Green Ingersoll’s thirteen remarks on duty offer clear, rational arguments. His witty, secular voice challenges conventional moral expectations.

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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that…

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If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the…

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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. Nothing is more touching than the death of the young,…

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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery…

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Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

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I say that no man can be greater than the man who bravely and heroically sacrifices his life for the good of…

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Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he…

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The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His…

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No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man…

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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it…

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There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes…

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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all…

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The ministers are in duty bound to denounce all intellectual pride, and show that we are never quite so dear to God…

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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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