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

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

—Blaise Pascal

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

—Blaise Pascal

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

—Blaise Pascal

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

—Blaise Pascal

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

—Blaise Pascal

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

—Ayn Rand

The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.

—Ayn Rand

We must as second best… take the least of the evils.

—Aristotle

Evil brings men together.

—Aristotle

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

—Joseph Stalin