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Only those who live on the labor of the ignorant are the enemies of science. Real love and real religion are in no danger from science. The more we know the safer all good things are.
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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If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
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Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
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I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.
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It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
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Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.
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Love your friends and be just to your enemies.
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Liberty a word without which all other words are vain.
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Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything.
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And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
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Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud-and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word. But in the night of Death Hope sees a star and listening Love can hear the rustling of a wing.
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I am going to put the Bible out of business.
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Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide. Having the power to defend himself he should have used it.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.
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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
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Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, Halt! A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.
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The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!
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Heresy is a cradle orthodoxy a coffin.
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The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.
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