164 ordspråk av Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll
Robert Green Ingersoll föddes den
11 August 1833 och dog den 21 Juli
1899 - noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. 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
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At the bottom of the ladder is Catholicism, and at the top is Science
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Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense
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But if the witnesses are inspired of God then there is no reason for their disagreeing on anything, and if they do disagree it is a demonstration that they were not inspired
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Calvin founded a little theocracy, modeled after the Old Testament, and succeeded in erecting the most detestable government that ever existed, except the one from which it was copied
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Calvin was as near like the God of the Old Testament as his health permitted
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Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
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Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb
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Every cradle asks us, "Whence?" and every coffin, "Whither?" The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed
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Every library is an arsenal
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Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne
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Every man who expresses an honest thought is a soldier in the army of intellectual liberty
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Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.
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