In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
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.
Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.