Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes - Page 9

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• Tell me there is a God in the serene heavens that will damn his children for the expression of an honest belief! More men have died in their sins, judged by your orthodox creeds, than there are leaves in all the forests in the wide world ten thousand times over. Tell me these men are in Hell; that these men are in torment; that these children are in eternal pain, and that they are to be punished forever and forever! I denounce this doctrine as the most infamous of lies.

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  Atheist, Children, Pain

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.216, Library of Alexandria

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• The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

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  Children, Father, Lying

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Discussions”

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• I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

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  People, Soul, Smallest

  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”

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• It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

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  Men, Years, Long

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1900). “Tributes and miscellany”

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• I would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos, to black and starless night, than that just one soul should suffer eternal agony.

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  Night, Agony, Soul

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.291, Library of Alexandria

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• I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

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  Song, Intelligent, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4159, Library of Alexandria

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• We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.

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  Needs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.288, Library of Alexandria

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• We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know.

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  Ignorant, Horizon, Honest

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.931, Library of Alexandria

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• The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described: - One who wished to preserve Judaism - one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

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  Reading, Reform, Three

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.248, Library of Alexandria

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• Commerce makes friends, religion makes enemies; the one enriches, and the other impoverishes; the one thrives best where the truth is told, the other where falsehoods are believed.

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  Enemy, Truth Is, Thrive

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4093, Library of Alexandria

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• If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.

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  Country, Religious, Children

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany”

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• We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

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  Fear, Atheism, Sin

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.554, Library of Alexandria

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• Every human being should be taught that his first duty is to take care of himself, and that to be self-respecting he must be self-supporting. To live on the labor of others, either by force which enslaves, or by cunning which robs, or by borrowing or begging, is wholly dishonorable. Every man should be taught some useful art.

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  Art, Work, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4081, Library of Alexandria

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• Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

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  Inspirational, Revenge, Anger

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt... In the New Testament, death is not the end, but the beginning of punishment that has no end. In the New Testament the malice of God is infinite and the hunger of his revenge eternal... This frightful dogma, this infinite lie, made me the implacable enemy of Christianity. The truth is that this belief in eternal pain has been the real persecutor.

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  Pain, Revenge, Real

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• A miracle is the badge and brand of fraud. ... No intelligent, honest man ever pretended to perform a miracle, and never will.

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  Intelligent, Men, Miracle

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.875, Library of Alexandria

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• An infinite God ought to be able to protect himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures. Certainly he ought not so to act that laws become necessary to keep him from being laughed at. No one thinks of protecting Shakespeare from ridicule, by the threat of fine and imprisonment.

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  Thinking, Law, Able

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.312, Library of Alexandria

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• Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.

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  War, Ideas, Drug

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• If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

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  Bible, Inspiration, Needs

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4140, Library of Alexandria

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• At the bottom of religious persecution is the doctrine of self-defence; that is to say, the defence of the soul. If the founder of Christianity had plainly said: 'It is not necessary to believe in order to be saved; it is only necessary to do, and he who really loves his fellow-men, who is kind, honest, just and charitable, is to be forever blest' - if he had only said that, there would probably have been but little persecution.

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  Religious, Believe, Men

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• The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

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  Giving, Liberty

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

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• The old lady who said there must be a devil, else how could they make pictures that looked exactly like him, reasoned like a trained theologian - like a doctor of divinity.

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  Doctors, Atheism, Devil

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1078, Library of Alexandria

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• Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.

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  Love You, Love Yourself, Deny

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1015, Library of Alexandria

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• He who dishonors himself [by lying about his opinions] for the sake of being honored by others will find that two mistakes have been made - one by himself, and the other, by the people.

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  Mistake, Lying, Two

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• Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie.

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  Lying, Hate, Blood

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

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