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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
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Kindness
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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The idea that there is a God who rewards and punishes, and who can reward, if he so wishes, the meanest and vilest of the human race, so that he will be eternally happy, and can punish the best of the human race, so that he will be eternally miserable, is subversive of all morality.
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Darwin has done more to change human thought than all the priests who have existed.
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Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.
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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?
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I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
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The Catholic Church is a thousand times better than your Protestant Church upon that question [of damnation]. The Catholic Church believes in purgatory - that is, a place where a fellow can get a chance to make a motion for a new trial.
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There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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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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It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.
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If all the historic books of the Bible were blotted from the memory of mankind, nothing of value would be lost.
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Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.
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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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Progress is born of doubt and inquiry. The Church never doubts, never inquires. To doubt is heresy, to inquire is to admit that you do not know—the Church does neither.
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I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
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The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.
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Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as society is ignorant enough and hypocritical enough to hold in high esteem the man of wealth without the slightest regard to the character of the man.
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