Dynamics
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm. (Nietzsche)
Yes, that is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. (Antonio Porchia)
I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. (Oscar Wilde)
Every sweet hath its sour; every evil its good. (Emerson)
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right. (Thomas Paine)
There is no odour so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. (Thoreau)
A good is never productive of evil but when it is carried to a culpable excess, in which case it completely ceases to be a good. (Voltaire)
It's the bad that's in the best of us leaves the saint so like the rest of us. (Arthur Stringer)
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. (Don Marquis)
All nature is but art, unknown to thee; all chance, direction, which thou canst not see; all discord, harmony not understood; all partial evil, universal good. (Alexander Pope)
Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong. (William Hazlitt)
Let no man presume to think that he can devise any plan of extensive good, unalloyed and unadulterated with evil. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Good and bad may not be dissevered; there is, as there should be, a commingling. (Euripides)
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. (Yiddish Proverb)
We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil. (Helen Keller)
The betrothed of good is evil, the betrothed of life is death, the betrothed of love is divorce. (Malay Proverb)
If we could see all the evil that may spring from good, what should we do ? (Luigi Pirandello)
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. (Plutarch)
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. (Spinoza)
When the bad imitate the good, there is no knowing what mischief is intended. (Publilius Syrus)