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How to use the word evils in a Sentence?

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Even a lot of people who identify as being pro-choice, it's almost a reluctant, ambivalent pro-choice. There are some that celebrate it, but there are a lot in that choice community see it as the lesser of two evils in their own decision-making path.

Timothy Head

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.

Cesare Beccaria

added by Normando
1 year ago

Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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added by unochickie
1 year ago

The Ukrainian people are fighting for The Ukrainian people lives and fighting for the survival of The Ukrainian people young democracy. Congress has a moral obligation to stand behind The Ukrainian people as The Ukrainian people resist the evils of Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Putin campaign of carnage.

Vladimir Putin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think woke comes from a larger phenomenon of white guilt. America, in the mid-'60s … [admitted] that it partook of evil and it partook of evil for four centuries— wasn’t just a quick minute, one of the consequences is that the moral authority of the American democracy was put at risk because of this history of evil that came to the forefront in the '60s. Since that time, white America understandably has been trying to reestablish its moral authority, its moral legitimacy. In order to do that, it has to find ways to demonstrate that it is not guilty any longer of those old evils.

Eli Steele

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

(c)(p) NOTHING IS HOPEFUL ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM, WHITE SUPREMACY, VIGILANTISM,HYPOCRISY AND INJUSTICE IN AMERICA OR ANYPLACE ON THE PLANET. THESE EVILS WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON, AND THE POLITICIANS AND PEOPLES WHO PROMOTE THEM IN CONGRESS AND SPEAK ABOUT MURDERING THOSE THEY HATE WILL SEE THEIR JUST ENDS.

RAS CARDO REGGAE

added by jahmantafari1
2 years ago

After years of railing on the evils of dark money, all while being bankrolled by a Swiss billionaire, it is clear liberals are the main beneficiary of undisclosed donations.

Caitlin Sutherland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He was an accomplished President, helping to modernise and transform the International Olympic Committee, he will be remembered particularly for championing youth sport and for inaugurating the Youth Olympic Games. He was also a fierce proponent of clean sport, and fought tirelessly against the evils of doping.

Thomas Bach

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Holocaust Remembrance was a unique event in human history, encompassing evils so great Holocaust Remembrance is nearly indescribable.

Amy Lutz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

To show them how we can create a better world and we can eradicate the triple evils of racism, poverty and violence by embracing and standing for peace, justice and equity and to show them ways in which it has been done before.

Yolanda Renee King

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I’m definitely aware when these things happen. For me, it’s a reminder of the evils that exist in the world and how important it is to not lose sight and to trust our gut and intuition.

Naomi Christie

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Today, as we mourn what was lost, let us also turn our eyes to the future -- toward the world that we wish to build for our children. A world unstained by the daily evils of bigotry and intolerance, where human rights are respected, and where all people are able to pursue their lives in dignity and security, let us renew our shared resolve to prevent future atrocities from occurring anywhere in the world. And let us pursue healing and reconciliation for all the people of the world.

President Biden

Found on CNN
3 years ago

======== #6. Avoid alcohol for it is the mother of all evils ======== #7. Do not become angry and Paradise will be yours ======== #8. Beware of suspicion; suspicion is the most untrue speech ======== #9. If one of you loves his brother for the sake of Allah, let him tell him, for it does good and makes the love last ======== #10. Blessings are with your elders

Prophet Muhammad

added by Ih761989
3 years ago

While a lot of people don't like what they have seen come out of the Donald Trump administration, I don't think Joe Biden and Harris have ignited them as well as they should have, people are doing their research and remember Biden's role in the crime deal in'94 and Harris' prosecutorial record and are again looking at this as the lesser of two evils.

Karen Dumas

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our forefathers found the evils of free thinking more to be endured than the evils of inquest or suppression. This is because thoughtful, bold and independent minds are essential to the wise and considered self-government.

Justice Robert H. Jackson

added by Normando
3 years ago

The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

added by Normando
3 years ago

In this current environment, we're going to have to choose between lesser evils, even if you are someone who generally prefers people voting in polling places, these are not ordinary circumstances.

Matthew Petersen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance -- these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Sir Isaiah Berlin

added by Normando
4 years ago

The practical objection to Puritanism, as to every form of fanaticism, is that it singles out certain evils as so much worse than others that they must be suppressed at all costs. The fanatic fails to recognise that the suppression of a real evil, if carried out too drastically, produces other evils which are even greater.

Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
4 years ago

If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Naziism were catastrophic evils which both derived from moral relativism. Their differences were minor compared to their similarities.

Paul Johnson

added by Normando
4 years ago

History teaches us the unfortunate lesson that cultural values supplant constitutional rights whenever the cultural elite consider a right too burdensome to suit the needs of the moment. The outlandish pronouncement in Dred Scott 'that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit,' the shameful court-approved internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, and the separate but equal doctrine that officially existed until 1954 are all examples of the evils that result when cultural values are given more weight than constitutional rights.

Robert Dowlut

added by anonymous
4 years ago

In their blessed memories, we resolve to defeat the evils of terrorism and religious persecution so that all people can worship without fear, pray without danger and live by the faith that flows from their heart.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I would say,' What is your part in the evils that you observe ?' in order for us to live a life in safety, or relative safety, someone has to live a life of danger. We're connected to evil whether or not we face it on the daily basis or not.

Jordan Peele

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Half the evils of the world come from inaccuracy.

Sir Arthur Helps

added by anonymous
5 years ago

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