“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.”

“People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.”

“But what virtue I do have is in me and of me. Men deny the good that comes from themselves, calling it God. So do they with their won evil, calling it the Devil.”

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

“Evil flourishes when good men do nothing. —SHARON WALL, QUOTING EDMUND BURKE”