William Golding on good and evil

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• 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

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• 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

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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