Cory Doctorow on good and evil

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That’s in the nature of secrets.

It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out⁠—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn’t give you the key, they’re not doing it for your benefit.

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