Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 12

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• If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Use, Action, Reason

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• Just to the extent that the Bible was appealed to in matters of science, science was retarded; and just to the extent that science has been appealed to in matters of religion, religion has advanced - so that now the object of intelligent religionists is to adopt a creed that will bear the test and criticism of science.

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  Intelligent, Religion, Criticism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (2004). “Superstition and Other Essays”

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• When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Passion, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The Works of Robert G.Ingersoll. [Dresden Ed.]”

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• One laugh of a child will make the holiest day more sacred still.

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  Family, Children, Laughing

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.215, Library of Alexandria

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• The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.

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  Sorry, Religion, Wish

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2417, Library of Alexandria

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• If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

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  Men, Would Be, Rooms

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1952). “Life and Letters”

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• Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

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  Fear, Hypocrisy, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.250, Library of Alexandria

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• Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

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  Liberty, Sound, World

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1901). “Miscellany”

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• I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

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  Life, Hurt, People

  "The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Legal".

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• Environment is a sculptor - a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, then most of us would have said: 'There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is his prophet.' If our parents had lived on the banks of the Ganges, we would have been worshipers of Siva, longing for the heaven of Nirvana. As a rule, children love their parents, believe what they teach, and take great pride in saying that the religion of mother is good enough for them.

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  Mother, Children, Believe

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• A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

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  Pride, Mules, Ancestry

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• I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

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  Evil, Trouble, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1951). “Letters”

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• A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

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  Ignorance, Men, Morality

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1987, Library of Alexandria

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• Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Hope, Liars, Lying

  Speech, 1892.

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• Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

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  Bible, Religious, Fear

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.449, Library of Alexandria

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• In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.

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  Death, Acceptance, Clouds

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1594, Library of Alexandria

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• The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the sons of men. The Old Testament describes the hell of the past, and the New the hell of the future.

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  Pain, Son, Past

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.474, Library of Alexandria

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• A few years ago the Deists denied the inspiration of the Bible on account of its cruelty. At the same time they worshiped what they were pleased to call the God of Nature. Now we are convinced that Nature is as cruel as the Bible; so that, if the God of Nature did not write the Bible, this God at least has caused earthquakes and pestilence and famine, and this God has allowed millions of his children to destroy one another. So that now we have arrived at the question - not as to whether the Bible is inspired and not as to whether Jehovah is the real God, but whether there is a God or not.

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  Children, Real, Inspiration

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2794, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe that labor is a blessing. It never was and never will be a curse. It is a blessed thing to labor for . . . the ones you love. It is a blessed thing to have an object in life - something to do - something to call into play your best thoughts, to develop your faculties and to make you a man.

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  Work, Believe, Blessed

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2712, Library of Alexandria

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• An infinite personality is an infinite impossibility.

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  Personality, Infinite, Impossibility

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.445, Library of Alexandria

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• If there is one subject in this world worthy of being discussed, worthy of being understood, it is the question of intellectual liberty. Without that, we are simply painted clay.

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  Intellectual, Liberty, Clay

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1929). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll...”

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• All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.

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  Religious, Giving Up, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4281, Library of Alexandria

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• The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership.

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  Men, Rights, Perfect

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.145, Library of Alexandria

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• The Church demonstrated the falsity and folly of Darwin's theories by showing that they contradicted the Mosaic account of creation, and now that the theories of Darwin having been fairly established, the Church says that the Mosaic account is true because it is in harmony with Darwin. Now, if it should turn out that Darwin was mistaken, what then?

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  Atheism, Church, Mosaics

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1846, Library of Alexandria

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• I found that the clergy did not understand their own book.

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  Book, Found, Clergy

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.257, Library of Alexandria

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