Evil in sentence

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The first one that David saw was human evil.

Jesus said, "For out of the heart come evil thoughts: murders, sexual immorality, theft, false testimonies, slander."

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell was not a religious man, but he said, "It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and it's from our hearts that it must be plucked out."

He said, "It's easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."

Pascal explored in depth our human dilemmas of evil, suffering and death.

Yet he too had to face death, and he wrote these words: "even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me."

This was David's answer to three dilemmas of evil, suffering and death.

Zeus had used the box as a vessel for all the forces of evil and suffering he’d created – and once released, they were uncontainable.

As she watched it flickering in the wake of the evil she’d unleashed, Pandora’s pain was eased.

But the story reveals that he has his own blind spots and suggests that simply recognizing evil doesn’t exempt his character from scrutiny.

Though we might balk at the price the woman pays for this redemption, we’re forced to confront the nuance in moments we might otherwise consider purely violent or evil.

Here, Christian fighters told me that all Muslims were foreigners, evil and allied with the government.

We could make a very long list, but obviously Nelson Mandela, emerging from 17 years of hard physical labor, 23 years of imprisonment, with this amazing ability to forgive, so that he could lead his nation out the evil regime of apartheid without a bloodbath.

Do you accept stepping out of the battle of good and evil?

And she had a statement that is very profound, and this statement is that science has been able to find cures for many evils, but never the greatest evil of all in human beings, and that evil is apathy.

The bad news, however, to this question of will evil prevail, is that evil lives on.

Talk about evil prevailing.

I mean, here he was in the room with the embodiment of evil in Cambodia.

I want to wrap up, but I want to close with what I take to be the four lessons from Sergio's life on this question of how do we prevent evil from prevailing, which is how I would have framed the question.

First, I think, is his relationship to, in fact, evil is something to learn from.

He started, as I mentioned, to get in the room with evil, to not denounce, and became almost obsequious when he won the nickname Serbio, for instance, and even when he negotiated with the Khmer Rouge would black-box what had occurred prior to entering the room.

So will evil prevail?

And the evil of the meritocracy is that people who've achieved a little more than others are actually worth a little more than others.

And before I go any further, I should tell you, if I were an evil genius and I wanted to create a situation that was going to make you mad, that situation would look a lot like driving.

Now Machiavelli is a figure who's often derided in the West, but the liberal philosopher Isaiah Berlin reminded us that the goal of Machiavelli was to promote virtue, not evil.

And so that points to the fact that our machines can be used for both good and evil, but for me it points to the fact that there's a duality of humans as well.

Some tried to explain the grimness and monotony of their world in terms of an endless cosmic war between good and evil, in which humans were the battleground.

In this world, there is really an evil who exists.

They clean up, they polish everything clean, they free us from everything evil.

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