Nothing is so good that impious and sacrilegious and wicked people cannot contort its proper benefit into evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.
People don't necessarily do evil deeds because they want to; people happen to do something with horrible consequences even if they meant to be kind.
For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.
Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.
I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.
To do no evil is good, to intend none better.