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Cannot Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
- The Catholics have a Pope. Protestants laugh at them, and yet the Pope is capable of intellectual advancement. In addition to this, the Pope is…
- They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him…
- God cannot send to eternal pain a man who has done something toward improving the condition of his fellow-man. If he can, I had rather…
- If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better…
- Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the…
- It cannot be said too often that actions are good or bad in the light of consequences, and that a clear perception of consequences would…
- No man should kill himself as long as he can be of the least use to anybody, and if you cannot find some person that…
- When a fact can be demonstrated, force is unnecessary; when it cannot be demonstrated, force is infamous.
- If Jehovah cannot support his religion without going into partnership with a State Legislature, I think he ought to give it up.
- All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the…
- Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by…
- Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value…
- There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.
- Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
More Cannot Quotes
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden