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Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart.

— Albert Einstein Misattributed

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Notes from Wikiquote

This statement has been attributed to others before Einstein; its first attribution to Einstein appears to have been in an email story that began circulating in 2004. See the Urban Legends Reference Pages for more discussion.

Variants

Evil is the absence of God.

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