I already put some awesome quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll. But damn, he is so good that I still have PLENTY of such quotes from him:
We
are satisfied that there can be but little liberty on earth while men
worship a tyrant in heaven.
--
"The Gods" (1872)
"The
intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can exchange
an old superstition for a new truth."
--
"The Gods" (1872)
God
did not reward men for being honest, generous and brave, but for the
act of faith. Without faith, all the so-called virtues were sins. and
the men who practiced these virtues, without faith, deserved to
suffer eternal pain.
--
"Why I am an agnostic" (1896)
If
there be gods we cannot help them, but we can assist our fellow-men.
We cannot love the inconceivable, but we can love wife and child and
friend.
--
"Why I am an Agnostic" (1896)
WHOEVER
has an opinion of his own, and honestly expresses it, will be guilty
of heresy. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given
by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak. This word was born of
the hatred, arrogance and cruelty of those who love their enemies,
and who, when smitten on one cheek, turn the other.
--"Heretics
and Herecies" (1874)
Who
can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted
in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize
mankind?
--
"Some Mistakes of Moses" (1879)
It
is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we
know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute,
and despise each other.
--
"Some Mistakes of Moses" (1879)
Until
every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed,
and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.
--Robert
Green Ingersoll, "Some Mistakes of Moses" (1879)
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