Robert Green Ingersoll Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Robert Green Ingersoll:

The American people do not like neutrality. They would rather a man were on the wrong side than on neither.

The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book and creed and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle, every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our government should be entirely and purely secular. The religious views of a candidate should be kept entirely out of sight.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great poet.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Character is made of duty and love and sympathy, and, above all, of living and working for others.

Robert Green Ingersoll

A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the universe, no matter how they assail it. It will stand, and it will stand firmer and grander the more it is assaulted.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from the bottom of my heart, because, upon the whole, my life has been a joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.

Robert Green Ingersoll

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The government, in my judgment, cannot create money; the government can give its note, like an individual, and the prospect of its being paid determines its value.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll