Paraphrasing an ageless adage, perhaps all it takes for evil to triumph is for good men not to vote.
Finally, to paraphrase the almost 300 year-old wisdom of Edmund Burke, the only way for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
Molina is the real draw of the film, opting not for the standard evil genius but for a good, sorrowing genius who is nudged into malice by boredom and bereavement.
Not the human capacity for evil, but the human capacity for good.
The British Health Secretary Alan Milburn said the current system of control through licences needed to be strengthened by law "to ensure that genetic advances are used for good rather than for evil".
But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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But just like any technology, it can be used for good or evil.
While technology can certainly be a force multiplier for good or evil, it's difficult to imagine a pure A.I. approach reverse-engineering the machinations of a terrorist mastermind.
Such is the apparent lack of affection for Chelsea these days that someone in the bowels of the stadium was moved to describe it as a victory for good against evil.
Religious traditions are repositories of immensely moving narratives, language that can be used for either good or evil.
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Another victory for good health against the evil forces of cost-cutting?
It is a fundamental tenet to many religions that evil, while mysterious, may clear the way for good, that the soul is perfected only in battle, that pain and ecstasy are somehow twins, that only a soul--or a century--that has truly suffered can truly realize joy.
This is the shortest of the Potter movies at two hours, 10 minutes, but the tempo is exactly right, rising and falling as Harry's fortunes bring him back to Hogwarts in search of the last horcrux and the school becomes a battleground -- a war zone -- for the eternal fight between good and evil.
But as we reflect today on the human capacity for evil and our shared obligation to defy it, we're also reminded of the human capacity for good.
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We were mostly tolerated as a necessary evil, and that was about as good as we could hope for.
Is the moral purpose of those who are good, self-immolation for the sake of those who are evil?
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The Vineyarders seem to have no theology they never try to reconcile reason with faith, nor do they try to account for the existence of evil in a world that is, presumably, ruled by a good God.
For players on both sides, large-scale battles are critical for establishing shared norms related to us-versus-them or good-versus-evil scenarios.
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