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Christianity has made more lunatics than it ever provided asylums for.
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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Dresden
Yates County
New York
Robert Ingersoll
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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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Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds summer, growth autumn, the harvest winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.
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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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An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.
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It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.
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Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a diamond surrounded by pebbles is still a gem.
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I am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
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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.
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I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.
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Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.
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Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
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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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[T]he blossom of benevolence, of charity, is the fairest flower, no matter whether it blooms by the side of a hovel, or bursts from a vine climbing the marble pillar of a palace. I respect no man because he is rich I hold in contempt no man because he is poor.
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Now the struggle for life is so sharp, competition is so severe, that few men can succeed who carry a useless burden. The businessmen of our country are compelled to lead temperate lives, otherwise their credit is gone.
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I am anxious to give away information, for it is only by giving it away that you can keep it. When you have told it, you remember it. It is with information as it is with liberty, the only way to be dead sure of it is to give it to other people.
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It is grander to think and investigate for yourself than to repeat a creed.
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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.
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