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Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.


Robert G. Ingersoll

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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
PARCELSUS The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.
BENJAMIN TUCKER The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of hea...
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PEARL S. BUCK Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
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ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and do...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I regard the rights of men and women equal. In Love's fair realm, husband and wife are king and ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL I can imagine no sweeter way to end one's life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Whether there is another life or not, if there is any being who gave me this, I shall thank him from...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, hav...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The more liberty you give away the more you will have.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL This great question of predestination and free will, of free moral agency and accountability, and be...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name i...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servan...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in p...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Basti...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of in...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A good character, like a Gibraltar, will stand against the testimony of all the rascals in the unive...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Fear, prejudice, malice, and the love of approbation bribe a thousand men where gold bribes one.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and ou...
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