671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

Intellectual liberty [is] the right to think right and the right to think wrong. Thought is the means by which we endeavor to arrive at truth.

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.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good.

Man never had an idea - man will never have an idea, except those supplied to him by his surroundings. Every idea in the world that man has came to him by nature.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.