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Do not trust those in whom the compulsion to punish is strong.
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
The Great Agnostic
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Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.
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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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There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
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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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Death is only perfect rest.
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There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: Let us be friends.
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In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous.
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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.
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The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.
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I would rather smoke one cigar than hear two sermons.
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On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?
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Do right, not to deny yourself but because you love yourself and because you love others.
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For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
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The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.
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All religious systems enslave the mind. Certain things are demanded-certain things must be believed-certain things must be done-and the man who becomes the subject or servant of this superstition must give up all idea of indivuality or hope of intellectual growth or progress.
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The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.
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Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
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Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
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To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.
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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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