Sentences with phrase «essential wrongness»

For both Chomsky and Hitchens, the only categories that exist for understanding are the categories of contemporary political discourse - which leaves utterly unexplained both the blood spilled and the essential wrongness of its spilling.

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But there are others for whom evil is no mere relation of the subject to particular outer things, but something more radical and general, a wrongness or vice in his essential nature, which no alteration of the environment, or any superficial rearrangement of the inner self, can cure, and which requires a supernatural remedy.