Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.