"It's so easy when you're evil."
— When You're Evil, Voltaire
"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."
— Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and Trope Namer
Snow White: I did something terrible.
Emma: You did that because you had to!
Snow: I did it because it was easy.
Emma: You did that because you had to!
Snow: I did it because it was easy.
"In some ways, it was far easier to be bad than good.
When you're bad, you don't care what happens to anyone other than yourself.
When you're trying to do good, you have to worry about everyone."
William Somerset: I just don't think I can continue to live in a place that embraces and nurtures apathy as if it was virtue.
David Mills: You're no different. You're no better.
William Somerset: I didn't say I was different or better. I'm not. Hell, I sympathize; I sympathize completely. Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work.
David Mills: You're no different. You're no better.
William Somerset: I didn't say I was different or better. I'm not. Hell, I sympathize; I sympathize completely. Apathy is the solution. I mean, it's easier to lose yourself in drugs than it is to cope with life. It's easier to steal what you want than it is to earn it. It's easier to beat a child than it is to raise it. Hell, love costs: it takes effort and work.
— Se7en
Billy Batson: "Be good and good will follow." That's what my parents used to always tell me. But, you know, Mr. Kent, I was good before they were taken from me. I was good at the foster home. And I was good fifteen minutes ago. I'm starting to think being good isn't good for me.
Clark Kent: It seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? But that's because good is hard. Bad is always easy.
Clark Kent: It seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? But that's because good is hard. Bad is always easy.
Calogero 'C' Anello: Sonny was right. The working man IS a sucker, dad. He's a sucker.
Lorenzo: He's wrong! It don't take much strength to pull a trigger, but try and get up every morning, day after day and work for a livin'! Let's see him try that! Then we'll see who's the REAL tough guy! The working man's the tough guy! Your father's the tough guy!
Lorenzo: He's wrong! It don't take much strength to pull a trigger, but try and get up every morning, day after day and work for a livin'! Let's see him try that! Then we'll see who's the REAL tough guy! The working man's the tough guy! Your father's the tough guy!
Ethan/Clayface: Here's the problem as I see it. Being Ethan Bennett is hard. Really hard! Being Clayface is cake! So say your goodbyes. This is the last you'll ever see of him.
Batman: You don't understand. I don't think you've ever understood.
Red Hood/Jason Todd: What? What, your moral code just won't allow for that [killing]? It's too hard to cross that line?
Batman: No! God Almighty — no. It'd be too damned easy. All I've ever wanted to do is kill him [The Joker]. A day doesn't go by when I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then... end him.[...] But if I do that, if I allow myself to go down into that place, I'll never come back.
Red Hood/Jason Todd: What? What, your moral code just won't allow for that [killing]? It's too hard to cross that line?
Batman: No! God Almighty — no. It'd be too damned easy. All I've ever wanted to do is kill him [The Joker]. A day doesn't go by when I don't think about subjecting him to every horrendous torture he's dealt out to others and then... end him.[...] But if I do that, if I allow myself to go down into that place, I'll never come back.
"If you end your training now, if you choose the quick and easy path as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil."
—Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
"Sometimes the devil allows people to live a life free of trouble because he doesn't want them turning to God."
— Mina's Mother, God's Not Dead
For Tony Montana, the choices seem simple at first. He can work hard, be honest and make a humble wage as a dishwasher. Or he can work for organized crime, make himself more vicious than his competitors and get the big cars, the beautiful women and the boot-licking attention from nightclub doormen. He doesn't wash many dishes.
