Graham Greene on good and evil

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity⁠— that was a quality God’s image carried with it.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Cynicism is cheap⁠—you can buy it at any Monoprix store⁠—it’s built into all poor-quality goods.

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