(157 quotes found)
“What has religion to do with facts? Nothing”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead”
“Science built the Academy, superstition the inquisition”
“My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd”
“The history of intellectual progress is written in the lives of infidels”
“If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.”
“Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion”
“No day can be so sacred but that the laugh of a little child will make it holier still”
“I combat those only who, knowing nothing of the future, prophesy an eternity of pain- those who sow the seeds of fear in the hearts of men- those only who poison all the springs of life, and seat a skeleton at every feast”
“It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god”