Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation... — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No man has a right to leave his wife to fight the battle alone if he is able to help. No man… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If a man really believes that God once upheld slavery; that he commanded soldiers to kill women and babes; that he believed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Homes make patriots. He who has sat by his own fireside with wife and children will defend it. Few men have been… — 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
On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The truth is that all great men have had great mothers. Great women have had, as a rule, great fathers. — 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
