(156 quotes found)
“The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
“It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god”
“If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce”
“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,”
“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”
“If the Bible is true, it needs no inspiration, and - if not true, inspiration can do it no good”
“The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.”
“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”
“Anger blows out the lamp of the mind”