Sentences with phrase «great evil»

"Great evil" refers to a severe and morally wrong action or behavior that causes significant harm or suffering to others. It can describe something very bad or wicked. Full definition
We attempt oft - times to realize a greater good in one respect at the price of greater evil in another respect.
This is not in the least to suggest that human beings are not responsible for great evil in the world.
Some of these were forces for great good, but in others lay the potential for great evil.
And yet it is often these wars to defeat evil which result in a vicious cycle of even greater evil and violence.
By stating we humans can do great evil... does not mean I disagree that we can do great good as well.
The children face off against great evil but they remain grounded by their ages, speaking and acting like young adults do.
It's almost hard to believe that not too long ago, pants on women were considered great evil, an ultimate fashion don't!
Want to know the single greatest evil in the world?
Maybe it was simply through their persistence in committing great evil.
The flood came as a result of humanity's great evil upon the earth.
We are all vulnerable to collaborating in the doing of great evil to our neighbors.
Many things begin with the «best intentions», but are later used for great evil.
But grains have been hailed as great evil doers in many modern diets such as the Paleo diet, Wheat Belly diet (specifically wheat and gluten), and others conforming to that thinking.
The characters in the game's world know «the legend of Zelda,» paying tribute to the green - clad Hero of Time that defeated great evil long ago.
This is seen by a Nazi officer as an efficient way to undermine Merrin's belief in his own goodness, and indeed forces the priest to commit evil to avoid greater evil.
«To me, that's an untenable view of the world that will lead to great evil because people will just stand by as evil takes place.»
Back then, communism MEANT something — even most liberals saw great evil in Stalin's regime, and scaring voters with the specter of socialism worked because there really WAS a socialist model attempting to compete with capitalism.
Of course, the same standards Augustine used to evaluate the justice of a war apply to the justice of a revolution: no other alternative is feasible; the advantages outweigh the suffering caused; and the evil employed in the revolution prevents far greater evil.
As much as we all would like to think that we'd rise to the occasion and be a hero with great evil - killing potential, I think this game most accurately portrays how we'd actually have to cope with such incredible and horrific situations.
CNN — writing down to the 3rd grade Dixie understanding level aka «marx» & «socialism» are the two greatest evils ever, nevermind how they allign with the actual words of Jesus Christ.
When they first meet, it's as mortal enemies but they find that there's an even greater evil threatening both realms and that to defeat it, they must join together.
Basically, if diplomacy will not work, the damage inflicted by the aggressor is going to be serious and certain, the war against those damages will not produce greater evils AND Vatican City has a reasonable chance to win the war, than the Pope may declare war if he so wishes.
Given that war - making involves doing evil, the problem to which Ignatieff now turns is how to prevent these «lesser evils» of war from turning into greater evils.
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Polls nonetheless suggest that a majority of Americans see high gasoline prices and oil imports from other, less friendly countries as equally great evils.
It has also provided great evils like the inquisition.
Rather than viewing conflict as the second greatest evil, conflict is an opportunity to grow and give the world something beautiful, a picture of the gospel, a picture of God.
Speak loudly that religion is the true great evil on this Earth.
Islam and christianity are both great evils.
A corollary is the very great evil of schism and private judgment, brought home to me when the Episcopal Church essentially decided to go its own way based on novel views, even in the face of faithful admonition by the broader Anglican Communion.
When we let those sins rule our lives great evil happens.
But they fell into even greater toils and began to reject marriage and the family altogether, preparing the way for yet greater evils.
The concentration relies heavily on religious events, with those not in the flock questioning what they see at every turn, only to come to a sort of acceptance that something sinister is going on, and trying to effect some sort of positive outcome, especially in keeping great evil from spilling over into the rest of the world.
Even though her village was free, she knew then that there was greater evil out there that needed to be stopped, and so she joined the Skylanders to train others in the art of the Sentinel Battle Class.
«This is, of course, exactly what enables great evil to flourish,» Taylor says.
In order, therefore, to guard against so great an evil, it has been the policy of all the American states which have individually framed their state constitutions since the Revolution, and of the people of the United States when they framed the federal Constitution, to define with precision the objects of the legislative power and to restrain its exercise within marked and settled boundaries.
This may be couched in the category of doing good but it is quite apparent it will create great evil down the line like quite a few Google projects.
Indeed, even those who would want to absolve Heidegger by seeing his official entry into the Nazi party or his Nazi Rektorat (rectorate) as a selfless attempt by him to prevent greater evils, are bound at least to accept the legitimacy of my inquiry.
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