Sentences with phrase «of more evil»

All four movies start off as if they intend to be just as scary as the novel but then wind up simplifying the issues, either by letting a doomed sympathetic character survive (as in Cruel Intentions) or by sentimentalizing the motives or the fates of the more evil characters (as in the other three movies).

I think the love of power is often a root of more evil than the love of money....

Not exact matches

«By shifting to a more collaborative work environment, the knowledge industry has opened a veritable Pandora's box, full of countless interruptions, distractions and other evils,» wrote Jonathan B. Spira, an analyst with Basex, a New York — based research firm.

The company told investors in 2012 it was built to «make the world more open and connected,» and way back in 2004 Google famously said its first rule of business was «don't be evil.»

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Same thing IMHO with Google's unofficial «Do No Evil» motto — a perfect example of the law of inverse relevance: the less you intend to do about something, the more you have to keep talking about it.

Now that Dr. Evil is out of the White House, he said he'll be promoting a new book: «Fire and Fury and Also Evil and More Fire and Also Magma Too» — a spoof on the book «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House» by Michael Wolff.

What Hitchens wrote about the evils of religion was not so much a scholarly argument, but more a wave of righteous indignation that levelled everything in its path.

Stone reminds us that violence is not always, absolutely evil, concluding that «the transformation of the motive» toward an increasingly virtuous object reframes the story, making the violence more «meaningful, if not fully justified.»

It makes me very nervous that Islam today finds more and more acceptance in the Western World though it is clear that it is a religion of war, evil, destruction, death, sorrow, torture, pain, doom, darkness, backwardness, hatred, revenge, bossiness, etc..

= > There is no necessity for the flood story to be anything more than a massive collection of spiritual truths that explain relationship between God and man, good and evil, life and death all in accordance with the plan of creation for the salvation of souls.

I have been called «un-American», «traitor», «monster», «evil», «devil», «child - rapist», «devil - worshiper», and so many more lovely things by your religion of love.

Or do you want to make an example of me, as the «evil Christian» with Sabio (much more Jesus - like) hovering over to make sure you hit the right note of bitterness?

The older I get — and against the nerve of Strauss's dogma — I think more and more of Locke as a mixture of good and evil implicit in the idea of Christian heretic.

Any way those were picks of verses from different sura's... I know they look long but they are not once you have read them you would want to read more... It is the evil in man who makes them to look as long or non understandable to read... or would even make you feel like sick...!

All this and that ban on christian act of services is the way of continuity in more evil.

He deepens this insistency in the Ethics and ties his argument explicitly to the sin of political or public overcoming that requires a norm of shamelessness in order for it to do its dirty work, dirty no more, or so is the claim, because the ruthless deed - doers know no evil.

Do you need more proof, look up maculy martin, or john corapi, evil is here and it is evading you radar, the church is the testament of the covenant to Jesus.

@fimeilleur actually i can back up the claims i make both personally and historically, one example Abraham, Machpelah (actual location of his tomb and remains along with 5 others in Israel right where they are supposed to be) Kedorlaomer king of Elam, (defeated by Abraham and recently discovered) it is said Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness.More than that Abraham saw God and spoke with Him, not the god you are on about that men use to justify their evil intent, but the God who has created all things, the God that no one especially you can not contain.Ignorance is your choice but that will not negate the existence of God in any way.No one that i am aware of has all the answers at this point regarding spiritual things, evolution or evilution there are areas God has not yet revealed to mankind but every day more is discovered.I find it amazing that God is big enough to share discovery even with those who would reject Him.

And I do think there is an element of hope in the crusade's demonstration that moral appeal and censure can affect a behavior so widespread, although goodness knows there are evils much more in need of our moral attention.

He's really more of a humanist, because he sees good and evil in the universe working through people.

39:32 — Then, who does more wrong than one who utters a lie against Allah, and denies the truth [this Quran, the Prophet (Muhammad SAW, and Jesus the Son of Marry), the Islamic Monotheism, the Resurrection and the reward or punishment according to good or evil deeds] when it comes to him!

For many years I believed, like you, that it was a matter of whether I did more good than evil to be saved... until I discovered otherwise.

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.

And if I thought otherwise I was rebellious, more than likely demon possessed, and if I had any plans of «going to heaven'then I needed to repent of my evil questioning thoughts and return to the «church».

In recent years, some more candid evangelical Protestants have decried the «hypocrisy» of preachers who are silent about the evil of divorce, in many cases because they are themselves divorced.

If you believe in God / Christ, then you have peace that no more suffering, pain, death, bickering among humans, corruption, death, and all of mankinds evil deeds, etc. etc. will exist when you exit this earth.

More inflammatory garbage from Baden, this time blaming the Bible for man's cruelty to each other, and ignoring the actual source and consequences of evil, falsehoods, and deception.

So we're cleaner but we're also doing so much more evil as a collective you could look at a society of apes and might actually find it more beautiful than some disgusting ones that are around now.

In Charleston, South Carolina, when those innocent people were shot during a bible study, the eloquence of their difficult words, «I forgive you,» spoke more directly to defeat the evil perpetrated by a tortured man than did the ensuing media firestorm which brought down one Confederate flag.

By contrast, one - time American presidential aspirant Alfred E. Smith offered a different diagnosis: «the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.»

When American Forces bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki they did so not out of evil, malicious intent, but instead they took in the ENTIRE picture, realizing that in spite of their horrific brutality many more lives would be spared in the long run.

What motivated these German anti-Nazis to resist the powerful Hitler regime is an important object lesson for more precisely locating the roots of the moral evil of Nazism by understanding the source of its antitheses (malum privatio boni est).

When evil rules the majority, then those laws will gradually be changed so that behavior gradually becomes more inclined to selfish gratification at the expense of others, wickedness then becomes expected, then it becomes normal, then it becomes the law.

That said: «But god did not foresee — that man would want a companion» = > «It is not good for the man to be alone» are the words used — so God did know and provided «that the snake would talk to the humans» = > «the serpent was more crafty than any other animal» - deception required capacity to deceive «that the humans would choose knowledge (and why else was that tree there)» = > It was not knowledge but knowledge of good and evil.

Such is the self - perpetuating and insidious nature of evil, breeding more deception and alienation from God along the way, and Ms Lamott's musings are a symptom and confirmation of that truth.

In fact, Niebuhr taught that the egotism of the individual only becomes more powerful when collected into a group, to the extent that an individual's egotistical will - to - live takes on the more evil will - to - power, that is, coercion becomes the modus - operendi of the group.

However, in our Jewish tradition, the possibility of return — teshuvah — turning away from evil to come back to a more primordial source of good, can not be denied to any person or to any people on earth.

«Isn't the simplest touch of a child's arm on the face more important, isn't the good meal, the brush against a thigh, a hand held during a movie, a swim in the sea, aren't those things of equal importance as the sands of time come rushing down on our heads burying ambition and love, good and evil, breath, blood, brains, waste, memory, alike in the oblivion?»

When we lose faith in the essential goodness of life and our own humanity, seeing that which we judge «evil» to be more prevalent than that which we judge to be «good», then we have lost faith in either the goodness or the power of God to sustain that goodness and our God has become too small or just another Baal, a false god of our own vain imaginings, a projection of our own finite limitations and disordered desires.

This is the same insight which, at a more abstract level, Whitehead identified under the name of Adventure: even the good when merely repeated becomes relative evil to be surpassed.

there are no words or science that can counter the perpetration of Satanic evil, like the truth of the Spirit that brings life more abundantly.

I often ask my wife if what i did or said was evil and i more often then not get «yes» so as i said before, i believe its a matter of perspective of those involved and the society it takes place in — but now in the modern day where your actions are on youtube in a seconds notice — the world is the final judge... and that does» t bode well for the U.S.

I wonder if the suffering and evil in this world and the glory of God are tensions lived in more than expectations realized?

For instance, a character may change from good to evil (or the reverse), become disillusioned, survive a series of tests, or prove to be more admirable in a crisis than anyone could have believed.

In God, Power and Evil, Griffin mentions two more criticisms of a free - will defense which affirms (16) and thus (14).

But over the last 25 years we have gotten much more clarity about the role of evil in the context of abuse.

(I wonder why we don't talk more about some of the successful programs in this country which have been 100 % effective in stopping this sort of evil.)

There will surely be occasions on which the state must intervene in the life of families in order to protect children, but it is more likely to be effective in acting against manifest evils than in positively restructuring families.

A god who chooses people for eternal literal fire (Romans 9) and causing / allowing evil (rape, torture, child abuse, etc) means he looks more like Molech than the God of love revealed in Jesus.