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  • But what we're talking about here are individuals who are often the personification of what we call evil.

    CNN Transcript May 4, 2005 2005

  • When we have the perception of injustice, when we have the perception of unforgivable harm, then the seeds of fear, anger and delusion take over and what manifests is what we call evil.

    CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2004 2004

  • He said that this means that we are all targets, that no one is immune, and therefore all countries have to unite in a front, a united front, against this kind of what he called evil.

    CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2001 2001

  • No one will deny that a young man is on the average better than an old one, for he is without that experience of the order of things that in certain thoughtful dispositions can hardly fail to produce cynicism, and that disregard of acknowledged methods and established custom which we call evil.

    She Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • So far there can hardly be any difference of opinion as to the fact which we call evil.

    Christian Doctrine of Sin 1823-1886 1876

  • KING: The discussion discussed something you don't hear often in debates or discussions with political candidates, the word evil.

    CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2008 2008

  • I don ` t think I ` ve ever in a lecture, all the way through my Ph. D., in talking to all these kinds of things that people can have, ever heard the word evil.

    CNN Transcript May 8, 2007 2007

  • I think honor killing, for example, is unambiguously wrong — you can use the word evil.

    The God Debate 2007

  • Taithu had walked — for it seemed that which came to the Shining One through the seven orbs had less and less of good and more and more of the power you call evil.

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • Our subject tonight, it is a wide and we will cover a lot of bases, is encompassing, basically, the word evil.

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2002 2002

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