Evil in sentence

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Paradoxically, it was God who created hell as a place to store evil.

So, this arc of the cosmic transformation of God's favorite angel into the Devil, for me, sets the context for understanding human beings who are transformed from good, ordinary people into perpetrators of evil.

That's one of the visual illustrations of evil.

My recent book, "The Lucifer Effect," is about, how do you understand how good people turn evil?

So Dr. Z's "Lucifer Effect," although it focuses on evil, really is a celebration of the human mind's infinite capacity to make any of us kind or cruel, caring or indifferent, creative or destructive, and it makes some of us villains.

All evil starts with 15 volts.

So Milgram is quantifying evil as the willingness of people to blindly obey authority, to go all the way to 450 volts.

So what are the seven social processes that grease the slippery slope of evil?

Passive tolerance of evil through inaction, or indifference.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn says, "The line between good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."

Heroism as the antidote to evil, by promoting the heroic imagination, especially in our kids, in our educational system.

But the point is, this is the same situation that can inflame the hostile imagination in some of us, that makes us perpetrators of evil, can inspire the heroic imagination in others.

Most people are guilty of the evil of inaction, because your mother said, "Don't get involved.

Take path one, you're going to be a perpetrator of evil.

Path two, you become guilty of the evil of passive inaction.

Let's oppose the power of evil systems at home and abroad, and let's focus on the positive.

This is not because governments are inherently good and corporations are inherently evil.

But how can we do that with all the evil we breathe every day?

Thank God, no system can nullify our desire to open up to the good, to compassion and to our capacity to react against evil, all of which stem from deep within our hearts.

Any further talk about power and who really has it seems a little dirty, maybe even evil.

But power is no more inherently good or evil than fire or physics.

But there's a problem, which is I don't actually believe in souls or evil, and I think wicked belongs in a musical.

Well today I'm going to tell you about a serious reality that is changing our oceans called ocean acidification, or the evil twin of climate change.

The most degraded and evil people I've ever known are male writers who've had huge best sellers.

And I don't think anything you're saying is that these are evil people.

"Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."

Meetings before the meeting are a necessary evil in his company today, and I didn't like it at all.

So what extremist groups are very good at is taking a very complicated, confusing, nuanced world and simplifying that world into black and white, good and evil.

And you become what is good, challenging what is evil.

This is Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Rushd, a very senior Muslim judge and thinker in Cordoba in the 12th century, and his writings were considered deeply blasphemous, heretical and evil.

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