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Every church that has a standard higher than human welfare is dangerous.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
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Yates County
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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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The man who finds a truth lights a torch.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse there is no argument in an epithet.
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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.
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The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan that is to say, human, natural.
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What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.
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When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.
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Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed
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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn it ploughs no land it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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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.
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Commerce is the great civilizer.
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The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
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