Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don't have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

Religion is now a matter of private judgment and observance for a majority, and thus we have become a country of not a few hundred different creeds but a few million.

Fear first made gods in the world.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

I hold that religion and faith are two different things.

I believe religion is important for every person.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

As a preacher who has spent significant time in churches and houses of worship all across the country, I can tell you firsthand that religious liberty and freedom are principles that can never be infringed upon.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.