Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living-Hope for the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Robert Green Ingersoll
Age: 65 †
Born: 1833
Born: August 11
Died: 1899
Died: July 21
Essayist
Lawyer
Lecturer
Orator
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
The Great Agnostic
Children
Fate
Dead
Help
Religion
Hope
Living
Helping
Mother
Awaits
More quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If there be an infinite Being, he does not need our help - we need not waste our energies in his defense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Liberty is the condition of progress. Without Liberty, there remains only barbarism. Without Liberty, there can be no civilization.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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?
Robert Green Ingersoll
According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if we take two from three, three are left. The addition is equally peculiar, if we add two to one we have but one. Each one is equal to himself and the other two.
Robert Green Ingersoll
The moment you introduce a despotism in the world of thought, you succeed in making hypocrites - and you get in such a position that you never know what your neighbor thinks.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Orthodoxy cannot afford to put out the fires of hell.
Robert Green Ingersoll
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
Robert Green Ingersoll
An honest God is the noblest work of man.
Robert Green Ingersoll
We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
Robert Green Ingersoll
If the money is raised by taxation, then the burden will fall where it ought to fall, . . . and the rich and stingy will no longer be able to evade the duties of citizenship and of humanity.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods.
Robert Green Ingersoll
There is only one way to be happy, and that is to make somebody else so, and you cannot be happy by going cross lots you have got to go the regular turnpike road.
Robert Green Ingersoll