It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Evil gains work their punishment.
It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.
It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
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, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.
There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.