Robert Ingersoll Quotes (76 Quotes)

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle

It (The Bible) has lost power in the proportion that man has gained knowledge

If Christ, in fact, said I came not to bring peace but a sword, it is the only prophecy in the New Testament that has been literally fulfilled

According to this account the promise of the devil was fulfilled to the very letter, Adam and Eve did not die, and they did become as gods, knowing good and evil.

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

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age

It is said that from Mount Sinai God gave, amid thunderings and lightnings, ten commandments for the guidance of mankind and yet among them is not found Thou shalt believe The Bible

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense

The credulity of the church is decreasing, and the most marvelous miracles are not either 'explained,' or allowed to take refuge behind the mistakes of the translators, or hide in the drapery of allegory

Whether the Bible is true or false, is of no consequence in comparison with the mental freedom of the race

The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.

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

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

The great religious historian, Eusebius, ingenuously remarks that in his history he carefully omitted whatever tended to discredit the church, and that he piously magnified all that conduced to her glory

Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice

Whoever imagines himself a favorite with God holds others in contempt

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd.

At present, a good many men engaged in scientific pursuits and those who have signally failed in gaining recognition among their fellows, are endeavoring to make reputations among the churches by delivering weak and vapid lectures upon the 'harmony o

All the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable, grew, blossomed and bore fruit in this one word, Hell

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves

Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, and the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

You have no right to erect your toll-gate upon the highways of thought

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science faith has been a hater of demonstration hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsis