Asylums Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll Download Open image “Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.” — Robert Green Ingersoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asylums Christianity Made
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at the outset of his public career. That interview with Satan on a pinnacle of the Temple would alone have damned him, and everything that happened after could have confirmed the diagnosis. The whole religious complexion of the modern… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Not least, the asylum idea reflected the long-term cultural shift from religion to scientific secularism. In traditional Christendom, it was the distinction between believers and heretics, saints and sinners, which had been crucial—that between the sane and the crazy had counted for little. This changed, and the great divide, since the ‘age of reason’, became that between the rational and… — Roy Porter Copy Share
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd. — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
Christianity is radically different from every other religion in the world. — David Platt 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
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
If things should go too far and deportation of all whiteguard emigres from the United States were demanded, this would be an attempt against… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Let us leave the EEC, abolish human rights laws, take TV sets, pool tables and phones out of prisons, bring back corporal and capital… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
I rejoice that liberty . . . now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government; a government, which, being formed… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want. — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation. — Michael Howard Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
I decided that we'd have to take our chances with the law and get the hell out of Baltimore. I thought of seeking asylum… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image