The Christians say, that among the ancient Jews, if you committed a crime you had to kill a sheep. Now they say 'charge it.' 'Put it on the slate.' The Savior will pay it. In this way, rascality is sold on credit, and the credit system in morals, as in business, breeds extravagance.
Robert Green IngersollLet us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
Robert Green IngersollNot only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas.
Robert Green IngersollI am not so much for the freedom of religion as I am for the religion of freedom.
Robert Green IngersollFor the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.
Robert Green IngersollHad he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.
Robert Green Ingersoll