Edgar Allan Poe on good and evil

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute.

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