Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• It is contended by many that ours is a Christian government, founded upon the Bible, and that all who look upon the book as false or foolish are destroying the foundation of our country. The truth is, our government is not founded upon the rights of gods, but upon the rights of men. Our Constitution was framed, not to declare and uphold the deity of Christ, but the sacredness of humanity. Ours is the first government made by the people and for the people. It is the only nation with which the gods have had nothing to do.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Country, Book

• If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Memories, Book, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4158, Library of Alexandria

• All that is necessary, as it seems to me, to convince any reasonable person that the Bible is simply and purely of human invention - of barbarian invention - is to read it. Read it as you would any other book; think of it as you would of any other; get the bandage of reverence from your eyes; drive from your heart the phantom of fear; push from the throne of your brain the cowled form of superstition - then read the Holy Bible, and you will be amazed that you ever, for one moment, supposed a being of infinite wisdom, goodness and purity, to be the author of such ignorance and of such atrocity.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Eye, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

• If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Brain, Faults

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Jeremiah Sullivan Black, George Park Fisher (1882). “The Christian Religion: A Series of Articles from the North American Review”

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Religious, Fear

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

• 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 mortal, and the church cannot be afflicted with the same idiot forever. The Protestants have a book for their Pope. The book cannot advance. Year after year, and century after century, the book remains as ignorant as ever.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Discussions”

• It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by men, and most of the men only partially civilized. Some of its laws are good - some infinitely barbarous. None of the miracles related were performed. . . . Take out the absurdities, the miracles, all that pertains to the supernatural - all the cruel and barbaric laws - and to the remainder I have no objection. Neither would I have for it any great admiration.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Book, Men

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

• All religions are inconsistent with mental freedom. Shakespeare is my bible, Burns my hymn-book.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Hymns, Religion

• The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Book, School

• There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Book, Learning

• I have no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my reason; no reverence for any book that teaches a doctrine contrary to my heart; and, no matter how old it is, no matter how many have believed it, no matter how many have died on account of it, no matter how many live for it, I have no reverence for that book, and I am glad of it.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Heart, Doctrine

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2354, Library of Alexandria

• 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 against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue to ebb and flow beneath the mists and clouds of doubt and darkness as long as love kisses the lips of death. It is the rainbow -- Hope shining upon the tears of grief.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Grief, Book, Heart

  Robert Green Ingersoll, Clinton P. Farrell (1900). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Discussions”

• Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Believe, Book

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

• I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Vote

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1403, Library of Alexandria

• We are told in the Pentateuch, that god, the father of us all, gave thousands of maidens, after having killed their fathers, their mothers, and their brothers, to satisfy the brutal lusts of savage men. If there be a god, I pray him to write in his book, opposite my name, that I denied this lie for him.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.435, Library of Alexandria

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

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Book, Found, Clergy

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

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