Courage without conscience is a wild beast. —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Robert Ingersoll 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 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 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
More quotations tagged with “conscience” There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. —Polybius More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Conscience is the voice of the soul. —Polish Proverb More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. —Karl Barth More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man. —Polybius More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conscience is the voice of the soul. —Polish Proverb More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. —Lillian Hellman More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life. —Karl Barth More about this quote Tags: conscience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email