“Evil people rely on the acquiescence of naive good people to allow them to continue with their evil.”

“People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.”

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”

“Good and Evil are names for what people do, not for what they are...stopped believing there was a power of good and evil. That they were outside of us...People are too complicated for labels.”

“The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil. ”