671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth.

It is labor that has made the world a fit habitation for the human race.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no persecutions.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

If you wish to reflect credit upon your parents, accomplish more than they did, solve problems that they could not understand, and build better than they knew.