Sentence examples for evil great from inspiring English sources

The myth and its attendant labels (axis of evil, Great Satan) are useful for politicians to make the case for war and for the public to buy into it.

But so far from an eternal age of peace, we have not only returned to fighting wars – we have returned to fighting a kind of war grimly prefigured not by the supposedly evil Great War but instead by the seemingly noble Good War.

As Nagel (2002, 36) allows while defending a status view, "there are evils great enough so that one would be justified in murdering or torturing an innocent person to prevent them".

Abortion is among a few evils greater than others, the document asserts.

Train: Extended resistance to evil, at great personal risk.

Surely American soldiers have confronted outright evil in great conflicts.

Madison acknowledged that slavery was an evil of great magnitude, a "moral, social and economical" failure.

It was a war in which all on both sides seemed to be victims of evil forces greater than themselves; of technology, imperialism or the public-school system.

In this regard, I reiterate: Silence is evil's greatest and most consistently dependable ally.

No one knows whether death, which people fear as the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Aquinas even said that in doing this the "wise legislator" would be imitating God, who tolerates certain evils lest greater evils ensue.