The phrase "Being against evil doesn't make you good" was used by Ernest Hemingway in his book "Islands in the Stream" (1970). For him and those who accept his beliefs, this phrase means that one must not become the evil that he or she is fighting against. It was therefore Hemingway and men like him who defined "evil" as something to be "disregarded".

When describing someone he considered to be a good person, Hemingway from his writings understood that a good man is:

"... one who lives correctly and knows that evil is not something to fear, much less negotiate with. That only gives it more power. There will be times when you have no choice but to battle evil — as the Maccabees did against the Syrian-Greek oppressor. But stoop to conquer evil and you will only join it in its mud (you become bad). Against evil, you must march to battle in the clouds. You must trample it while never looking down. On the contrary, while in battle against evil, you must find yourself reaching higher and higher, looking for all that is good."

When facing evil actions and conditions, as good people, we have been told to handle the situation or event without any shortage of self-confidence and goodness. Don't crumble to evil; create a little light that pushes away a lot of evil darkness. Against the light, evil is known to melt in surrender. If you always act out of a spirit of goodness, you can defy evil (darkness) with any infinite light in your possession.

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