Human race Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

8 Human race quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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Ingersoll’s eight quotes channel his freethinker spirit into concise observations about humanity. The collection offers a quick, logical look at his secular take on human nature.

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The literature of many lands is rich with the tributes that gratitude, admiration and love have paid to the great and honored…

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Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened…

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The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and…

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God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.

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The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and…

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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

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The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are…

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The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all…

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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

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If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I…

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Honest investigation is utterly impossible within the pale of any church, for the reason, that if you think the church is right you will…

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I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a…

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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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