The place does not make the man, nor the sceptre the king. Greatness is from within. — Robert Green Ingersoll Greatness Copy Share Image
The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age. — Robert Green Ingersoll Age Copy Share Image
In a world of cruelty, sympathy is a crime, and in a world of lies, truth is blasphemy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Blasphemy Copy Share Image
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. — Robert Green Ingersoll Mankind Copy Share Image
It is hard to overstate the debt that we owe to men and women of genius. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future — Robert Green Ingersoll Old testament Copy Share Image
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where… — Robert Green Ingersoll Aristocracy Copy Share Image
If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book… — 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… — 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 Children Copy Share Image
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow men. We cannot love the inconceivable, but we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Children Copy Share Image
Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else. — Robert Green Ingersoll Divine 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 Fraud Copy Share Image
Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you… — Robert Green Ingersoll Anxious Copy Share Image
Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word… — Robert Green Ingersoll Communication Copy Share Image
Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ministers, who preached at these revivals, were in earnest. They were zealous and sincere. They were not philosophers. To them science… — Robert Green Ingersoll Atheism Copy Share Image
Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings… — Robert Green Ingersoll Art Copy Share Image
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness. — Robert Green Ingersoll Evil Copy Share Image
Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing is more despicable than to reach fame by crawling, position by cringing. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. — Robert Green Ingersoll Being Copy Share Image
Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for. — Robert Green Ingersoll Asylums Copy Share Image
Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise! — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man. — Robert Green Ingersoll Constitution Copy Share Image
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. — Robert Green Ingersoll Consequences Copy Share Image
Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity. — Robert Green Ingersoll Absurd Copy Share Image
Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal. — Robert Green Ingersoll Character Copy Share Image
For the most part, we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. — Robert Green Ingersoll Habits Copy Share Image
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