(157 quotes found)
“The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race”
“That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;”
“I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.”
“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...”
“In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous”
“We are not accountable for the sins of Adam”
“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,”
“My principal objections to orthodox religion are two - slavery here and hell hereafter”
“Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.”