3 Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes on Criticism

Robert G. Ingersoll quotes on criticism

50. Whoever attacks a custom or a creed, will be confronted with a list of the names of the dead who upheld the custom, or believed the creed. He is asked in a very triumphant and sneering way, if he knows more than all the great and honored of the past. Every defender of a creed has graven upon his memory the names of all 'great' men whose actions or words can be tortured into evidence for his doctrine

72. How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself? Always by a statute against blasphemy, against argument, against free speech. And there never was such a statute that did not stain the book that it was in and that did not certify to the savagery of the men who passed it.

112. From the aspersions of, the pulpit, from the slanders of the church, I seek to rescue the reputation of the Deity.