Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
– Robert Ingersoll
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
– Robert Ingersoll
Superstition, the mother of those hideous twins, fear and faith, from her throne of skulls, still rules the world.
– Robert Ingersoll
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
– Robert Ingersoll
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
– Robert Ingersoll
Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.
– Robert Ingersoll
We are not accountable for the sins of Adam.
– Robert Ingersoll
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
– Robert Ingersoll
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
– Robert Ingersoll
With their backs to the sunrise they worship the night.
– Robert Ingersoll
If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease.
– Robert Ingersoll
Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labours of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
– Robert Ingersoll
Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.
– Robert Ingersoll