"Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us."

"Evil, not value, is an absence and a negation, evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. I saw that evil was impotent—that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real—and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it."

          ~ Ayn Rand, from 'Galt's Speech: The Sanction of the Victim'