Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

We all have the duty to do good.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on the part of gendarmes, hangmen and penal courts, it is self interest.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Every day I am on this Earth, I will do all I can for so many important causes.

We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

I don't know anything about propaganda for Chinese reunification. I only know about charity and environmental work. I just want to do good.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

We all have to take responsibility for what we say and do.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

I followed the law. Before God, before the law, before the people of the state of Florida who elected me, I know that I followed the law.

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.