Although Bukharin had not challenged Stalin since 1929, his former supporters, including Martemyan Ryutin, drafted and clandestinely circulated an anti-Stalin platform, which called Stalin the “ evil genius of the Russian Revolution ”.

In his later books, Suvorov insists that Stalin was a true evil genius ( although unlucky ), while reducing Hitler to a grossly incompetent evil.

Neal Ascherson noted: " Everyone by then could agree that Stalin was a very wicked man and a very evil one, but we still wanted to believe in Lenin ; and Conquest said that Lenin was just as bad and that Stalin was simply carrying out Lenin's programme.

* Were the crimes of Nazi Germany uniquely evil in history, or were other crimes, such as those of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, comparably evil?

Furthermore, Hildebrand argued that the crimes of Joseph Stalin were just as evil as those of Adolf Hitler.

Four of the Platform's thirteen chapters were devoted to examining the character of Stalin, whom Ryutin called " the gravedigger of the Revolution " and " the evil genius of the Party and the revolution ".

Let us suppose that the animal did not in fact fall into the trap and did not suffer at all, but that we mistakenly believe it did, and say as before that its suffering was an evil thing.

`` Wherefore also He ( God ) drove him ( man ) out of Paradise, and removed him far from the tree of life, not because He envied him the tree of life, as some venture to assert, but because He pitied him, ( and did not desire ) that he should continue a sinner for ever, nor that the sin which surrounded him should be immortal, and evil interminable and irremediable.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

On the other hand, in the Lancelot-Grail it is said that Merlin was never baptized and never did any good in his life, only evil.

When he did raise his voice with the German occupiers, it was either to ensure that the Vatican City state would not be compromised – that is to say, he would be safe – or to emphasise his own neutrality in a conflict which, for many, became a battle between good and evil.

It is the belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid.

" So they learn from them ( the two Angels ) that by which they might cause a separation between a man and his wife ; and they cannot hurt with it any one except with Allah's permission, and they learned what harmed them and did not profit them, and certainly they know that he who bought it should have no share of good in the hereafter and evil was the price for which they sold their souls, had they but known this.

" Dickens then developed this in Martin Chuzzlewit ( 1843-4 ) published two years before the appearance of Sweeney Todd in The String of Pearls ( 1846-7 ), with a character called Tom Pinch, who is grateful that his own " evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many country legends as doing a lively retail business in the metropolis ".

Pelagianism is the belief that original sin did not taint all of humanity and that mortal free will is capable of choosing good or evil without divine aid.

Thus the Augustinian theodicist would argue that the problem of evil and suffering is void because God did not create evil ; it was man who chose to deviate from the path of perfect goodness.

This form of theodicy argues that evil does not exist except as a privation-or corruption of-goodness, and therefore God did not create evil.

Hand-painted tarot cards remained a privilege of the upper classes and, although some sermons inveighing against the evil inherent in cards can be traced to the 14th century, most civil governments did not routinely condemn tarot cards during tarot's early history.

Swaddling and Bonfante ( among others ) explain that depictions of the nude embrace, or symplegma, " had the power to ward off evil ", as did baring the breast, which was adopted by western civilization as an apotropaic device, appearing finally on the figureheads of sailing ships as a nude female upper torso.

Some sources incorrectly refer to the June 1982 speech before the British House of Commons as the " Evil Empire " speech, but while Reagan referred twice to totalitarianism in his London speech, the exact phrase " evil empire " did not appear in any speech until later in his Presidency.

When asked by a reporter whether he still thought the Soviet Union was an " evil empire ," Reagan responded that he no longer did, and that when he used the term it was a " different era "; that is, the period before Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost reforms.

Although Kuntz did not own the creative rights to Robilar and no longer worked at TSR, he unofficially suggested an alternate storyline that Robilar had been visiting another plane and in his absence, a clone or evil twin of Robilar was responsible for the attack.

Schoenewolf later clarified that " No person is better off enslaved, obviously ... What I tried to say, before my words were twisted by that reporter, is that despite the clear and obvious evil of that practice, we tend to forget that many of the enslaved people had been first been sold into bondage by their fellow countrymen ; so coming to America did bring about some eventual good.

After the battle, Gandalf accompanied Bilbo back to the Shire, revealing at Rivendell what his pressing business had been: Gandalf had once again urged the Council to evict Sauron, since quite evidently Sauron did not require the Ring to continue to attract evil to Mirkwood.

Pithana, the king of Kussara, conquered level Ia Neša " in the night, by force ", but " did not do evil to anyone in it.

Ahab son of Omri did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him.

Prominently, George R R Martin's acclaimed A Song of Ice and Fire series more or less abandons the good-evil paradigm in favor of a more politically based and multifaceted struggle between different ruling families, most of whom display both good and evil tendencies in pursuit of power, which takes the place of the main catalyst of the story.

In his January 2002 state of the union address to Congress, President George W. Bush spoke of an " axis of evil " consisting of Iran, North Korea, and Iraq.

At their first concert, They Might Be Giants performed under the name El Grupo De Rock and Roll, because the show was a Sandinista rally in Central Park, and all of the audience members spoke Spanish Soon discarding this title, the band assumed the name of a 1971 film They Might Be Giants ( starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward ), which is in turn taken from a Don Quixote passage about how Quixote mistook windmills for evil giants.

* Axis of evil, U. S. President George W. Bush's description of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea

There is anecdotal evidence, related to biographer George Wyatt by her former lady-in-waiting Anne Gainsford, that Anne brought to Henry's attention a heretical pamphlet, perhaps Tyndale's " The Obedience of a Christian Man " or one by Simon Fish called " Supplication for Beggars ," which cried out to monarchs to rein in the evil excesses of the Catholic Church.

*" George W. Bush has a vision which can be described with two other words: Manichaean paranoia ... the notion that he is leading the forces of good against the empire of evil, that in that setting, the fact that we are morally superior justifies us committing immoral acts.

Their politics may be different but such people share the morality of Laval and Pétain ... they are willing not only to tolerate evil, but to excuse it ... Both Jim Prior and Keith Joseph know that George Ward and Grunwick are not perfect, nor was Czechoslovakia perfect in 1938.

John Adams, who would succeed George Washington to become the new nation's second president, in his Thoughts on Government wrote that Paine's ideal sketched in Common Sense was " so democratical, without any restraint or even an attempt at any equilibrium or counter poise, that it must produce confusion and every evil work ".

* Priscilla: Priscilla is the daughter of King George IV of Serenia, she was once kidnapped by the evil wizard Harlin and taken to his land beyond he Great Mountains.

In other words, the " good " George is surrounded by a glory, while the " evil " Robert appears as a dark spectre.

* Axis of evil, a term used by former U. S. President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address on January 29, 2002

In Gadget and the Gadgetinis, more of Dr. Claw's past was revealed ( such as his first name being revealed as George ) and the villain was given an extended family, including an equally evil brother, Dr. Thaw, and career-criminal parents, mother Marilyn and father Gordon Claw.

In his State of the Union address in January 2002, President George W. Bush called Iran, Iraq, and North Korea an " axis of evil ".

Rhonda Wilcox writes, " There could hardly be a nastier incarnation of the patriarchy than the ancient, ugly vampire Master ", and Gregory Stevenson places him in the category of " absolute evil " with the second season's Judge ( also Brian Thompson ), third season's Mayor ( Harry Groener ), and fourth season's Adam ( George Hertzberg ).

In 1998 Iraq accused Butler and other UNSCOM officials of acting as spies for the United States, but the UNSCOM weapons inspectors were not expelled from the country by Iraq as has often been reported ( and as George W. Bush alleged in his infamous " axis of evil " speech ).

" The evil geniuses, McCarthy said, included General George Marshall.

The term is a conscious pun made on President George W. Bush's term " axis of evil ", which he used in the 2002 State of the Union address to decry Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.

" George Otis says that Daniel 10 is " a well-defined case of an evil spiritual being ruling over an area with explicitly defined boundaries.

Monsters and all types of evil are recorded as being subdued by girdles in literature, a famous one being the dragon slain by Saint George.

In America, the Neo-Conservatives ' aspirations to use the United States military power for further destruction of evil are thrown off track by the ascent of George H. W. Bush to the presidency, followed by the 1992 election of Bill Clinton leaving them out of power.

With the September 11th attacks, Neo-Conservatives in the new Republican government of George W. Bush use this created concept of an organisation to justify another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the War on Terrorism.

George Mason law professor Todd Zywicki, a Dartmouth alum ( and trustee ) later referred to Freedman as a " truly evil man.

She tells them that her father, George Cameron ( Colin Rix ) has been kidnapped by the evil Muller ( Guy Deghy ) who is after the deadly poison he has developed.

Sheriff George Patterson and local physician Doctor Dave Woodward suspected that there was still an evil monster afoot in Collinsport and used Maggie as bait to set a trap for her mysterious stalker.