Arthur Conan Doyle on good and evil

Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

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