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Human Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
- Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
- Whenever a man believes that he has the exact truth from God, there is in that man no spirit of compromise. He has not the…
- I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God,…
- He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place…
- God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race.
- I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle…
- The only thing that makes life endurable in this world is human love, and yet, according to Christianity, that is the very thing that we…
- The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the…
- Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it…
- It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
- Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting.…
- Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to…
- 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…
- Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.
- And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between…
- The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.
- The intelligent and good man holds in his affections the good and true of every land -- the boundaries of countries are not the limitations…
- The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating…
- Christianity has such a contemptible opinion of human nature that it does not believe a man can tell the truth unless frightened by a belief…
- Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with…
- I am a believer in liberty . That is my religion to give to every other human being every right that I claim for myself,…
- Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
- If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first…
- Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong