Sentence examples for evil useful from inspiring English sources

The first is that education makes the man; as Locke writes at the opening of his treatise, "I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education".

Evil, evil, evil.

Sure, some of them will admit there can be necessary evils or useful evils -- usually weapons procurement or law enforcement.

Were "evil" a useful term, which it surely is not in connection with such a tragic stalemate, its application to the dispossessed and the occupied, and not to the colonialist occupiers, is unjustified.

That evil (whispers: quite useful) substance that strangles baby turtles and pollutes marine life.

"Absolute evil" is not a useful concept, at least from the standpoint of a biographer.

The binaries of good and evil are no longer useful, and neither is simplifying the problem of religious extremism between two poles, secular modernity and fundamentalist brutality.

It's an opportunity to catch up with how oily and evil James Spader can be – useful, since he's playing mechanical baddie Ultron in the blockbusting sequel to Avengers Assemble.

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.

Secretary Powell also said, in an interview, that President Bush's description of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil" had been diplomatically useful and "tended to clear the sinuses of various people around the world".

The appointment of the irascible Kitchener, who saw journalists as at best a necessary evil, was probably not a useful move.