Sentence examples for evil implies from inspiring English sources
And the existence of evil implies its opposite: there is good, too.
"Mirroring" evil, as opposed to depicting evil, implies that we are all capable of evil, that we might all share in the crimes of the Nazis, whether we are perfume advertisers or Holocaust survivors or actors or housewives, which leads to an unasked question: so who are we to point fingers at Hitler?
"Evil" implies malevolence, an intention to do harm; it is a profoundly powerful word.
Many Americans would reject the definition of evil implied by the Jewish and Christian Scriptures -- not to mention the Koran -- since those books accept as good things we now view with horror: genocide, for example (the Israelites' slaughter of the Amalekites), and natural catastrophe (the Flood).
Such special occasions might be a sudden need to go through the elaborate ritual for purifying the king when he was threatened by the evils implied in an eclipse of the Moon, or in extreme cases there might be a call for the ritual installation of a substitute king to take upon himself the dangers threatening, and various other nonperiodic rituals.
For instance, some people believe that to say that someone performed an evil action implies that that person acted out of malice (see e.g., Kekes 2005), while others believe that evildoing can result from many different sorts of motives, even good motives (see e.g., Card 2002).
Not every evil act implies guilt beyond the perpetrator.
Having attained a lofty station in English culture by the time the "War Requiem" had its première, in 1962, he confronted listeners with a statement of radical pacifism: interweaving the Mass for the Dead with antiwar poems by Wilfred Owen, Britten proposed that war is an absolute evil, and implied that institutionalized Christianity had betrayed its founding texts.
He noted a distinction between using the term evil to imply blame (sin) and to imply lament (suffering) and argued that Augustine posited sin to have occurred before suffering.
It is because of radical evil that virtue implies struggle and demands strength.
