I have discovered that all human evil comes from this…

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

— Blaise Pascal

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

— Blaise Pascal

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

— Blaise Pascal

All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.

— Blaise Pascal

“All human troubles derive from our inability to sit still and alone in a room.”

— Blaise Pascal

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“After fifty-five years of dedicating his life and work to the story of ethical systems, Sol Weintraub had come to a single, unshakable conclusion:…

— Dan Simmons

“No one must ever fancy another human being so much more evil than themselves that killing was justified.”

— Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.

— Dean Koontz

[Abortion] is an evil in and of itself, but it is not a religious evil in the beginning, no, it's a human evil. Then…

— Pope Francis

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material,…

— Louise Erdrich

So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we…

— T. S. Eliot

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

— Rudolf Steiner

“The moment we forget that even the evil among us are still human is the moment we forget that even the most human among…

— Shaun David Hutchinson