Walter Scott on good and evil

O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!

To all, to each, a fair good-night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light!

Revenge⁠—the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell!

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