Quote #114

Give your sons and daughters every advantage within your power. In the air of kindness they will grow about you like flowers. They will fill your homes with sunshine and all your years with joy. Do not try to rule by force. A blow from a parent leaves a scar on the soul.

More from Robert G. Ingersoll

  1. Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.
  2. God cannot hate anybody who is capable of loving anybody.
  3. From the aspersions of, the pulpit, from the slanders of the church, I seek to rescue the reputation of the Deity.
  4. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
  5. Force has no place in the world of love. It is impossible to control likes and dislikes by law. No one ever did and no one ever can love on…
  6. He who puts chains upon the body of another shackles his own soul.
  7. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
  8. Heresy is what the minority believe; it is the name given by the powerful to the doctrines of the weak.

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