Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science has nothing in common with religion. Facts and miracles never did and never will agree. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The first step is for man to cease to be the slave of man. The second, is to cease to be the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Do you not know that every religion in the world has declared every other religion a fraud? Yes, we all know it.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief!… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every religion in the world has denounced every other religion as a fraud. That proves to me that they all tell the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious… — 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
