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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
Lecturer
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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Common
Upon
Sense
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Bestowed
Blasphemy
Superstition
Superstitions
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Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.
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I admit that books were voted in and out, and that the Bible was finally formed in accordance with a vote.
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If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
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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 doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.
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Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.
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The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
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Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
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Christianity did not come with tidings of great joy, but with a message of eternal grief. It came with the threat of everlasting torture on its lips. It meant war on earth and perdition hereafter.
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He loves his country best who strives to make it best.
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Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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But honest men do not pretend to know they are candid and sincere they love the truth they admit their ignorance, and they say, We do not know.
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Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
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They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
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The church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness.
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Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.
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