Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Daredevil's religion makes him unique. He's a vigilante, but he's also a lawyer - and all the while, he believes only God is capable of bringing people to justice.

Liberty must be a mighty thing; for by it God punishes and rewards nations.

If there is a God, there should be no slaves.

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

No God can put a man in hell in another world, who has made a little heaven in this. God cannot make a man miserable if that man has made somebody else happy.

The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart of a wild beast, can believe in eternal punishment.

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

My principal objections to orthodox religion are two: slavery here and hell hereafter.

Any god who can invent hell is no candidate for the Salvation Army

They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism.

We must believe in the gods no longer if injustice is to prevail over justice.

The industrial and social injustice of our era is the tragic aftermath of democracy's overemphasis on freedom as the "right to do whatever you please." No, freedom means the right to do what you ought, and ought implies law, and law implies justice, and justice implies God. So too in war, a nation that fights for freedom divorced from justice has no right to war, because it does not know why it wants to be free, or why it wants anyone else to be free.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?