Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only the narrowly vindictive greeted the verdict with a sense of jubilation. A brilliant but weak man had proved unworthy of the great trust placed in him. A fine talent had been put to doing evil. By the jury's verdict he was marked as a man who, having dedicated himself to Communism under a warped sense of idealism, had not served it openly, but covertly; a man who, having .once served an alien master, lacked the courage to recant his past, but went on making of his whole life an intricate, calculated...
Even an atomic world would be easy and safe if all political choices were between freedom and slavery, progress and reaction, good and evil. The world is not safe or easy, because many of the choices are between slavery and more slavery, reaction and worse reaction, evil and more evil...
...were still visiting patients in a provincial town. These prisoners were good people, talented people, and in a moment of anguish Kudriavtsev silently asked: "My God, why do I have to lead these damned souls to Hell?" But it never occurred to him that the order he personified was evil...
...Century Finger. The Tormentors is motored by two main ideas: 1) that the unjust ultimately suffer more than their victims, and 2) that in a society where brutality is normal, one man's kindness cannot undo the evil to which the society has bound...
...Nourse thought the Federal Government should recognize that bigness in itself is no evil. Said he: "Large-scale operations are essential to greater achievement and efficiency. The Government should accept business practices which . . . promote trade or facilitate maximum production. It should virtually abandon the attack on bigness as such...