Robert Green Ingersoll

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bee #flowers #honey #hope #makes

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#mankind #never #reform #religion #slavery

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#argument #debate #kindness #reason #anger

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#atheism #pragmatism #proactive #responsibility #true-religion

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#claim #every #giving #human #human being

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

#follow #insane #man #new #old

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#better #common #common sense #sense #than

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#best #heaven #hell #let us #out

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#happiness #punishment #result #reward #suffering

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#blows #lamp #mind #out #which