José Martí on good and evil

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Mankind is composed of two sorts of men — those who love and create, and those who hate and destroy.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.

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