Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Death, Men, Two

• Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.21

• All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Evil, Gone

• Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Evil, Wickedness

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.142, Lulu.com

• The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Wicked, Alive

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.45

• One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Omnipotence, Evil

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.309

• There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, May, Fallacy

• Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Evil, Shadow

• Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Battle, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.81, Lulu.com

• In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Triumph, Deliverance

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.10, Modern Library

• Not one false man but doth uncountable evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Evil

• How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Evil, Goodness, Entanglement

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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