Sentence examples for spread of evil from inspiring English sources
Albert Camus turned the spread of evil ideas during World War II into a viral infection in his devastating novel "The Plague".
DRESDEN, Germany — President Obama on Friday intensified his pledge to unlock the Middle East stalemate, sending an envoy next week to pursue his call for a two-state solution, as he toured a former concentration camp that he said served as a lesson to "be ever-vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time".
Glenn Beck says the Madison protests are part of the same "spread of evil" that has gripped the Middle East.
When President Obama said at Buchenwald that "this places teaches us that we must be ever vigilant about the spread of evil in our own time, that we must reject the false comfort that others' suffering is not our problem and commit ourselves to resisting those who would subjugate others to serve their own interests," his words reflected the very essence of Hannah Rosenthal's life mission.
Just as goodness tends to spread, the toleration of evil, which is injustice, tends to expand its baneful influence and quietly to undermine any political and social system, no matter how solid it may appear... Evil crystallized in unjust social structures... cannot be the basis of hope for a better future".
His narrow, pastoral view of national identity ("oil-lit churches, village inns, arguments about cow parsley on the altar, the noise of mowing machines on Saturday afternoons, leaning on gates") too redolent of the insular Little Englander inwardly raging at the spread of suburbia and evil traffic jams.
Alarmed to the point of obsession by what he believed was the threat posed by the Soviet Union, Pius XII was intent on preserving the status quo of the Vatican State and preventing the spread of Communism, an evil he deemed even worse than Nazism.
Veteran gore-merchant Frank Henenlotter presents two of his disgusting classics, Basket Case and Brain Damage, and there's a spread of dependable favourites like Evil Dead II, Hellraiser, The Brood and An American Werewolf In London.
They prayed, celebrated and held debates – on the subject of the evil spread of homosexuality in the West, for example.
His role in the mass extermination of Jews epitomized "the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil" that had spread across Europe at the time.
Others see merely the beautiful convergence of profit and progress, while the rest are left to endure the disinfecting scrub of modernity, which spreads silently like Hannah Arendt's definition of evil -- with neither depth nor dimension, like a fungus, over the surface of all things.
