Sentence examples for basic evil from inspiring English sources

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I think he would reiterate that "want" – or poverty – is the basic evil that, if you don't abolish, drags down all your attempts at making people healthier or better educated.

Some feel differently, among them Alan M. Dershowitz, the lawyer and author of "What Israel Means to Me," who in November 2006 wrote in the Web site The Huffington Post: "The basic evil of South African apartheid, against which I and so many other Jews fought, was the absolute control over a majority of blacks by a small minority of whites.

Indeed, there is a community of ex-Scientology and anti-Scientology activists, writers and bloggers for whom the supposed basic evil of official Scientology is such an article of faith that they have ended up taking on a worldview that, in its own way, is just as Manichean as the one they oppose.

He blindly refused to comprehend the basic evil of Nazi Germany.

As a bestselling author and philosopher, Rand came to prominence by promoting a philosophy in her novels that holds selfishness as a good and condemns altruistic concern for others as a "basic evil".

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In the centre of the wheel are shown the three basic evils, symbolized by a red dove (passion), a green snake (anger), and a black pig (ignorance).

I have seen VR portrayed as a portent for humanity's most solitary, basic, and evil instincts over and over again in television and film.

Evil, evil, evil.

Also: "Your basic Fat Evil Prick, perfectly cast as a dictatorial committee chairman: He has the requisite moist-with-sweat pink neck, the dour expression, the penchant for pointless bile and vengefulness".

Basic plotline: evil company dumps poison into town's drinking water, for years people get sick while the company denies any wrongdoing, but then someone decides it's time to fight back.

For example, on TV we have Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, Don't Trust The Bitch in Apartment 23, Devious Maids, and, because its serpent imagery is so symbolically basic to feminized evil, American Horror Story: Coven.

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