Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when…

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

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Jonathan Sacks

Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it's good.

— Karen Marie Moning

No evil is completely destroyed nor are acts of goodness.

— Dorothy Fuldheim

“He was evil. Cruel, capricious, and dangerous as a cobra. A prince of darkness. Completely evil, and completely in love with her.”

— L.J. Smith

“I've told you before, I don't comprehend religion, although conviction is a concept I'm beginning to get. In any case, someone with a real…

— Gregory Maguire

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

— Harold Laski

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall…

— Henry Parry Liddon

Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply enough attack…

— Adolf Hitler

The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were people with…

— Charles Haynes

But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction.…

— John F. Kennedy

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to…

— David Bentley Hart

I speak as a private citizen and not as a representative of the Executive Branch of the United States government. The impression that people…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Umberto Eco