Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll
Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know that there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath, if they could not pay for air? I am not blaming anybody. I am just telling how it is.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
When a man really believes that it is necessary to do a certain thing to be happy forever, or that a certain belief is necessary to ensure eternal joy, there is in that man no spirit of concession. He divides the whole world into saints and sinners, into believers and unbelievers, into God's sheep and Devil's goats, into people who will be glorified and people who are damned.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not.
Ingersoll, Robert Green
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
Ingersoll, Robert Green