Conviction Quote by Harriet Martineau

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the…

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Blaise Pascal

Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Blaise Pascal

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

— Samuel Johnson

When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience…

— Charles Wagner

“It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its load, this essential experience;…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate…

— Aristotle

Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.

— Miguel de Unamuno

If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the…

— Anonymous

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

— Martin Van Buren

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then…

— Philip Zimbardo