Sentence examples for the scale of evil from inspiring English sources

"You don't put your thumb on the scale of evil," he said.

He claimed innocence of high politics and the scale of evil he was about to engage: "Hitler had seemed to me revolting but unimportant, like old Gómez, the dictator of Venezuela".

At the International Institute for Philosophy, in the village of Schaan, Solzhenitsyn rehearsed many of his old themes for the people of Liechtenstein: the failure of the West to recognize the scale of evil in the Soviet Union, the lack of an ethical dimension in politics since the rise of secularism.

But this historical legacy, monumental though the scale of the evil was and clearly as Hitler's central responsibility can be established, does not entirely account for our continuing concern with the Third Reich, and the sense that this seems to be increasing, not decreasing with the passage of time.

This derived from a sense not of proportion but of profound chaos, a welter in which his own lucky little order appeared miraculous but inconsequential; and from a revelation, nearly religious, that the colossal scale of evil could only be matched or countered by some solitary flicker of intense and private humanity.

So it has been a haunting, searing, challenging day for me not just because the vastness of the evil but the human scale of the evil that was perpetrated on a daily basis".

It's measuring everything on a scale of evil".

"All men [sic] by nature desire to know," writes Aristotle in the opening of his work, Metaphysics, and when we're faced with evil on the scale of 9/11 or the Boston bombing, what we want to know most of all is, "Who did this and why?" On the heels of these intellectual questions comes a more primal desire: revenge.

Only when Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's searing novels were published in the 1960s were Western sympathizers forced to acknowledge the frightful scale of Stalin's evil.

What Jo actually does is rather minor on the grand scale of good and evil -- all she does is plan an affair -- but it's horrifying to us, because we've become so connected to her world that we've come to believe in the value of what she's risking.

There are indeed gradations and that's why I began to develop what I called the "Gradations of Evil" scale, which has almost two-dozens levels in it.