In the premodern era, Ms. Neiman explains, evil referred as much to natural catastrophes as to willful acts.
In it, they found much stronger language for such institutionalized evils, referring, in connection with anti-Semitism, to "an underlying basic religious culture which shaped and deformed people's attitudes".
In it, he urges Iraqis to face their future with hope while recalling their deprivations under "the evil one," referring to the deposed dictator.
By contrast, Mr. McCain immediately took the question of evil as referring to Al Qaeda, Iraq and a long struggle against "radical Islamic extremism".
In De Civitate Dei, Augustine emphasizes the privative nature of evil by referring to the will's pursuit of inferior goods as being a deficient rather than efficient cause [De Civitate Dei, XII.7].
Google's mantra is do no evil – but does "evil" only refer to illegal behaviour, or is it a relative concept to those of fairness and accountability?
By "banality of evil" she was referring to how monstrously evil acts were committed as if they were "standard behavior" -- mundane, normal activities of everyday life.
The cliches of Fu Manchu and evil butlers refer to middle England's fear of foreign invasion and working-class uprising.
He's also called Michelle Obama "evil" and referred to Hillary Clinton as a "hoe".
