I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
Robert Green IngersollRead
Perjury is the basest and meanest and most cowardly of crimes. What can it do? Perjury can change the common air that we breathe into the axe of an executioner.
Interpretation
Perjury is a betrayal of truth that can have grave consequences.
This quote emphasizes the gravity of committing perjury, illustrating that lying under oath is not only a crime but also a profound act of cowardice. Ingersoll suggests that such dishonesty can lead to devastating effects, corrupting the very essence of justice and fairness in society, creating a violent and oppressive reality rather than a just one.
In practice
This quote can be used in a courtroom setting to emphasize the importance of truthfulness.
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
If the guardians of society, the protectors of 'young persons,' could have had their way, we should have known nothing of Byron or Shelley. The voices that thrill the world would now be silent.
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.
I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.
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