William Penn on good and evil

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke1729–1797

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal1623–1662

• Anti-Religion

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein1879–1955