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Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery Quotes: People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.
         

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


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This page presents the quote "People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.". Author of this quote is Umberto Eco, The Prague Cemetery. This quote is about fundamentalism, dogma, fanaticism, evil, religion,.