Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

—Robert Ingersoll

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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

—Robert Ingersoll

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

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

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

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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

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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.

Conscience is the voice of the soul.

—Polish Proverb

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.

—Logan Pearsall Smith

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

—Lillian Hellman

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

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