WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/77795/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Robert Ingersoll</b></a></p><blockquote>The Church hates a thinker precisely for the same reason a robber dislikes a sheriff, or a thief despises the prosecuting witness. Tyranny likes courtiers, flatterers, followers, fawners, and superstition wants believers, disciples, zealots, hypocrites, and subscribers.</blockquote><p><b>Robert Green Ingersoll</b> (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator<br>Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/ingersoll-robert-green/77795/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=robertingersoll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>robertingersoll</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=church" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>church</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=freethought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freethought</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=rationality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rationality</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>religion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=superstition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>superstition</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=thought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thought</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=freethinker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freethinker</span></a></p>