Sentence examples for of great evil from inspiring English sources

But that may already set us on a dangerous road to "balancing" and moral compromise, which, in the case of torture, has always been the beginning of great evil and has always been prohibited in the human rights tradition.

Jin Zhong, the editor of the magazine Open, a Hong Kong monthly that's vociferously critical of the Chinese Communist Party, says that Wang reminds him of Zhou Enlai, Mao's loyal, obedient premier: "Zhou was a beloved figure among Chinese people because he had a charming personality, but he never challenged Mao, and, ultimately, he was in the service of great evil".

Even the Romans knew this, as the philosopher Seneca noted: "Those who pluck out, or thin out, their beards, or who closely shear and shave the upper lip while preserving the rest of the hair and allowing it to grow… endeavour to excite and attract men's attention, and they put up even with censure, provided that they can advertise themselves… This is the result of great evil in the soul".

The old thought experiment asks: If you could travel back in time to prevent someone's birth who would be capable of great evil, would you do it?

This is both good and bad: bad because the bitcoin proponents see the eyes of government as tools of great evil and good because it ensures that business could (but may not) begin accepting bitcoin.

The Nazis and other perpetrators of great evil were either committed to what they were doing, in which case they were profoundly immoral (or not moral agents at all) and lacked integrity; or else they lacked integrity because they were self-deceived or dissembling and never actually had the Nazi commitments they claimed to have.

He quotes St. Augustine, calling the looming task "mournful work": "sustaining relative good in the face of greater evil".

Previous judgments laid down that the necessity defence could be accepted only when action was taken to prevent an act of greater evil.

The Mondoshawan's current contact on Earth, priest Vito Cornelius Ian Holmm), informs the President of Earth (Tom Lister, Jr). of the history of the great evil and the weapon that can stop it.

"I am truly sorry for the harm done to the victims of sexual abuse, as well as to the members of our community who suffer as a result of this great evil and crime," he said.

He concluded that he might indeed harbor some of that great evil within himself.