Conviction Quote by Blaise Pascal

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

— Blaise Pascal

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to…

— Anonymous

All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.

— Walter Raleigh

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.

— Simon Wiesenthal

In doing nothing men learn to do evil.

— Cato the Younger

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

— Umberto Eco

Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes.

— J. Edgar Hoover

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

— Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing.

— George Zimmerman

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

— Tryon Edwards

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

— Blaise Pascal