Evil

We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator

The lack of money is the root of all evil

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art

Active evil is better than passive good

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Evil is whatever distracts.

Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided

The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good