World Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the consolation of the world.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Shakespeare has done far more for the world than the Bible.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent, to borrower…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world, and love is the only thing that will pay ten percent to both…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty.

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I believe in living for this world - that's my doctrine - to make everybody happy that you can.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Religion is one of the phases of thought through which the world is passing.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

It has always seemed to me that a being coming from another world, with a message of infinite importance to mankind, should…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

As a matter of fact, no one knows that God exists and no one knows that God does not exist. To my…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly…

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It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such…

— 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

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

Instead of loving a God, we love each other. Instead of the religion of the sky-the religion of this world-the religion of…

— 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

While I am opposed to all orthodox creeds, I have a creed myself; and my creed is this. Happiness is the only…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Abraham Lincoln was, in my judgment, in many respects, the grandest man ever President of the United States. Upon his monument these…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

— 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

How poor this world would be without its graves, without the memories of its mighty dead. Only the voiceless speak forever.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Walt Whitman defended the sacredness of love, the purity of passion - the passion that builds every home and fills the world…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done,…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy.

— Robert Green Ingersoll