Mencius states benevolence naturally defeats evil as water extinguishes fire. Many only make feeble moral efforts yet blame benevolence for failure, which sides with wickedness and leads to their own downfall eventually.
Analects 7.16 The Master said, “He who seeks only coarse food to eat, water to drink and a bent arm for pillow, will without looking for it find happiness to boot. Any thought of accepting wealth and rank by means that I know to be wrong is as remote from me as the clouds…
3.24 The guardian of the frontier-mound at Yi asked to be presented to the Master, saying, “No gentleman arriving at this frontier has ever yet failed to accord me an interview.”