Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on good and evil

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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