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Paraphrasing Katherine Hepburn in the movie The African Queen, religion allows us to rise above wicked old Mother Nature, handing us a moral compass.
The counter-argument is that the threat of indictment will deter rulers from wicked behavior.
Indeed, it is likely to prolong wicked regimes.
Grameen vs. BangladeshHONG KONG – The feud in Bangladesh between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Mohammed Yunus, the founder of the microloan-making Grameen Bank and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is being portrayed as a modern-day replay of the famous battle between the wicked Kauravas and the virtuous Pandavas in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata.
Given this mindset, Putin and his supporters at home and abroad view democracy and free markets not as the path to peace and prosperity, but as part of a wicked conspiracy to destroy Russia.
Allegations of poisoning by the wicked imperialists are, of course, a feature of the official Kim death story.
Pol Pot’s wicked regime murdered millions in Cambodia until Vietnam intervened.
Just ask the Japanese, who were continually denounced in the 1980’s as wicked traders.
The notion that “we are open and others are closed,” a cherished belief of US politicians and media – and an article of faith with the current administration – also feeds the notion that countries like India are wicked traders, much like the Japanese in the 1980’s.
The appearance of a wicked wife in Chinese public scandals is a common phenomenon.
When Mao Zedong purged his most senior Party boss, Liu Shaoqi, during the Cultural Revolution, Liu’s wife was paraded through the streets wearing ping-pong balls around her neck as a symbol of wicked decadence and extravagance.
We knew what was best for people, and those who opposed us were either stupid or wicked.
She has supported claims that the right to abortion, protected by the Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade in 1973, is a wicked sin, and affixed her signature to an appeal decrying the ruling’s “barbaric legacy” and calling to overturn it.
That is why one wicked act committed by a lone member of a minority group – such as the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting by an Afghan-American – sets off outrage against the entire population, even creating a backlash against other ethnicities unconnected to the tragedy.
But it was not only false, it was the cruel mockery of some evil power: a wicked and disgusting Power, and one to which it was impossible to submit.
In one week they would purge the world of the wicked, they would chase away the unworthy masters.
"With all due respect to master, they don't strike me as very wicked!""They're cannibals even so, my boy.""A person can be both a cannibal and a decent man," Conseil replied, "just as a person can be both gluttonous and honorable.
Hair of a dark chestnut, growing very low, gave him a narrow brow, and in moments of anger a wicked air.
Madame de Renal felt that Julien had a very wicked air; he had stopped within arm's length of her.
'Well, the fact is, Ma'am, he won't have me; wicked people must have spoken evil of me to him, and he believes them.''Who won't have you?' said Madame de Renal, scarcely able to breathe.
'Those gentlemen,' said a banker's wife, 'ought really to offer an affront to the little upstart, born in the gutter.''He has a wicked temper and he is wearing a sabre,' replied her companion; 'he would be quite treacherous enough to slash them across the face.'
Wicked one, that is what I wished to discuss with you; but no, you were right.
He had been wrong perhaps in securing the deprivation of the old cure Chelan; for this vindictive action had made him be regarded, by several pious ladies of good birth, as a profoundly wicked man.
"Besancon is full of wicked people," she told me, "I am afraid for you, Sir.
The traveller goes his way and leaves the wicked thorns to wither where they are.
'That wicked Elisa will be coming into the room, what are we to do with that enormous ladder?' she said to her lover; 'where are we to hide it?
When Madame de Renal's eyes became animated, it was with the fire of her passions, or was due to a righteous indignation upon hearing of some wicked action.
Can I indeed be wicked?'
Then, some friendly voice will cite as an instance: "Why, Mademoiselle de La Mole's first husband was mad, but not a wicked man, he was no criminal.
'That is what is isolating me, that and not the absence of a just, good, all-powerful God, who is not wicked, not hungry for vengeance ...'Ah!
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