671 Quotes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the consolation of the world.

Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

When passions and appetites are stronger than the intellect, men are savages; when the intellect governs the passions, when the passions are servants, men are civilized. The people need education - facts - philosophy.

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

Whoever marries simply for himself will make a mistake; but whoever loves a woman so well that he says, 'I will make her happy,' makes no mistake. And so with the woman who says, 'I will make him happy.'

The Unitarian Church has done more than any other church to substitute character for creed, and to say that a man should be judged by his spirit; by the climate of his heart; by the autumn of his generosity; by the spring of his hope; that he should be judged by what he does; by the influence that he exerts, rather than by the mythology he may believe.

I have no confidence in any religion that can be demonstrated only to children.

We do not need the forgiveness of God, but of each other and of ourselves.