Argument Quote by Robert Green Ingersoll Download Open image “Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.” — Robert Green Ingersoll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Insolence Logic Malice
He who is insolent towards men is insolent towards God... Respect in man the grand, inestimable image of God and be forbearing towards the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“That virtue in this world is hated ever; Malicious men may die, but malice never. ORGON” — Molière Copy Share Image
Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
try to understand that there is more thoughtlessness than malice in the world. People are not out to offend you deliberately and maliciously. But… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary. — David Hume 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
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
