I think Rand would agree with that statement completely:
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. - Galt's speechThe spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. - Capitalism the Unknown Ideal: The Anatomy of Compromise