Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes About Virtue

Quotes about: Virtue

• Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Kindness, Sunshine, Virtue

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1026, Library of Alexandria

• The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2445, Library of Alexandria

• 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 destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Perfect, Desire

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”

• And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Mother, Differences

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4535, Library of Alexandria

• Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of temperance, for the sake of morality, or for the sake of anything. It is of more value than everything. Yet some people would destroy the sun to prevent the growth of weeds. Liberty sustains the same relation to all the virtues that the sun does to life.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Weed, People, Growth

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.978, Library of Alexandria

• Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Promise, Vices, Jehovah

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4351, Library of Alexandria

• Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Attention, May, Stones

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.770, Library of Alexandria

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