Don't you know that if people could bottle the air they would? Don't you know there would be an American Air-bottling Association? And don't you know that they would allow thousands and millions to die for want of breath if they could not pay for air? —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: economics wealth greed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, failure, misfortune — all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: justice poverty crime logic punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we had done as the kings told us five hundred years ago, we should all have been slaves. If we had done as the priest told us, we should all have been idiots. If we had done as the doctors told us, we should all have been dead. We have been saved by disobedience. We have been saved by the splendid thing called independence, and I want to see more of it. I want to see children raised so that they will have it. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is something wrong in a government where those who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The moment a man gets money, so many men are trying to get it away from him that in a little while he regards the whole human race as his enemy, and he generally thinks that they could be rich too if they would only attend to business as he has. Understand, I am not blaming these people. . . . We must remember that these rich men are naturally produced. Do not blame them. Blame the system. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: politics money wealth enemy systems Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: now happiness good Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email