Quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

The more a man knows, the more willing he is to learn-the less a man knows, the more positive he is that he knows everything.

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Theology is not what we know about God, but what we do not know about Nature.

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

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

A crime against god is a demonstrated impossibility.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

If the property belongs to God he is able to pay the tax.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

If we have the right to use our reason, we certainly have the right to act in accordance with it, and no god can have the right to punish us for such action

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.

Jehovah was not a moral god. He had all the vices and he lacked all the virtues. He generally carried out all his threats, but he never faithfully kept a promise.

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

Good nature is the cheapest commodity in the world.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think and the right to think wrong.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.