Sentence examples for a potential for evil from inspiring English sources
2. Everyone has a potential for evil.
By the final sequence, the show had steered the viewer into a set of challenging insights: that a victimizer might be a victim, too, and worthy of pity; that a teen-ager can have the potential for evil and still lack the moral capacity of an adult; and that bad acts and brave ones can coexist without blotting each other out.
Destroyed, the Man fled to Westworld to create a test of his own potential for evil.
But ultimately – and at its best – it's a likably original thriller about faith, the destructive power of evangelism and the human potential for evil, in its most banal guises.
In an interview with Stanford University's campus newspaper, she said, "I bring up these crimes to remind us of the potential for evil that lives in us all.
They all begin their very long quest to return it to the forge where it was made, and so permanently destroy its potential for evil.
The way to curtail humans' ineradicable potential for evil is not soaring rhetoric or heartfelt prayer, but effective laws that govern the interaction of citizens in society.
And in cases where diverse expressions of a religious tradition or of religion in general hardly deserve celebration, recovering knowledge of them does enlarge one's sense of religion's mixed potential, for evil as well as for good.
One of the things that makes him so compelling a writer is the whiff of brimstone that comes off him, what Mr Cornwell describes as his "potential for evil".
