Humans Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Burns had his faults, his frailties. He was intensely human. Still, I would rather appear at the "Judgment Seat" drunk, and be…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He…

— Robert Green Ingersoll