While in the view of most American academics the two were as diametrically opposed as good and evil, Sakharov believed that in this " tragic confrontation of two outstanding people ," both deserved respect, because " each of them was certain he had right on his side and was morally obligated to go to the end in the name of truth.

A fight ensues in which the " evil " Superman tries to dispose of the " good " Kent, but the latter fights back, " kills " the evil side to his nature and, reclaiming the Superman mantle, sets off to repair the damage and capture the villains.

From there ' the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French King, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him '.

In some works, as in large parts of Jordan's The Wheel of Time, the struggle between good and evil is mainly used as a backdrop for more intricate conflicts of interest, such as conflicts between different factions formally on the same side in the good vs. evil conflict.

They then justify the atrocities of their own side by claiming it to be a lesser evil compared with allowing the evil power to have its own way.

As in the other cases, the moral equivalence device is used by those who claim that the Allied side by definition was good and the Axis was by definition evil.

Another influence on the Zohar which Scholem identified, was a circle of Kabbalists in Castile who dealt with the appearance of an evil side emanating from within the world of the sephirot.

Scholem saw this dualism of good and evil within the Godhead as a kind of " gnostic " inclination within Kabbalah, and as a predecessor of the Sitra Ahra ( the other, evil side ) in the Zohar.

However, he is warned that the Force is a double edged sword ; its dark side is seductive and could corrupt him into an agent of evil if he gives into his anger and aggression.

Snakes were also used to represent the evil side of drugs in such films as Narcotic and Narcotics: Pit of Despair.

The name " Orcus " seems to have been given to his evil and punishing side, as the god who tormented evildoers in the afterlife.

Indeed, originally Treguard was specifically a neutral character, neither on the side of good nor evil.

There were both good and evil rakshasas, and as warriors they fought along side the armies of both good and evil.

In the meantime, Jekyll develops a drug to release the evil side in himself, thus becoming the violent Mr. Hyde.

Take the balance which if on the side of pleasure, will give the general good tendency of the act, with respect to the total number or community of individuals concerned ; if on the side of pain, the general evil tendency, with respect to the same community.

Supporters of the “ nature ” side suggested that some people are born evil or with malicious tendencies.

It is often held to be impossible, or at least improbable, for a deity to exhibit such property along side omniscience and omnipotence as a result of the problem of evil.

After a tumultuous love affair, often deterred due to Cole's frequent struggle between good and evil, and still managing to graduate from college Phoebe ventures into The Underworld to save Cole from his dark side and unwittingly becomes a pawn to the Source of All Evil.

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

In season eight, he begins a fight against evil, hoping to be a source of inspiration and hope to others.

The Vilna Gaon wrote an extensive commentary on the Sefer Yetzira, Kol HaTor, in which it is said that he had tried to create a Golem to fight the power of evil at the Gates of Jerusalem.

The plot of the story often depicts the hero's fight against the evil forces as a Bildungsroman.

Within the fictional history of the Marvel Universe, the tradition of using costumed secret identities to fight or commit evil had long existed, but it came into prominence during the days of the American " Wild West " with heroes such as the Phantom Rider.

These bells are usually in the shapes of the zodiacal animals: hamaya, which are symbolic arrows for the fight against evil and bad luck ; and Inuhariko, which are paper dogs that are used to induce and to bless good births.

* are animated skeletons mostly from the remains of dead warriors who still have a strong will to fight, and serve evil powers such as Ganon or Vaati.

* TV show on Cartoon Network Teen Titans ( TV series ) where five young teens fight evil

Xena also has to fight her own past ; she has never forgiven herself for her crimes, and often has to resist the temptation to return to her evil ways, but she always resists with the help of Gabrielle.

By Season Eight, she has become a leader as well as a Slayer, training her fellow Slayers in the fight against evil.

We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.

The Doctor himself is considered a " renegade " Time Lord because where his fellow Time Lords are content to observe the evil in the Universe, he has elected to fight against it.

Instead of a group of eight companions based in the Obsidian Citadel who left periodically to fight evil, the Circle became eight wizards led by a ninth wizard, Gygax's former character Mordenkainen.

Ready ' gainst evil to fight and be bold.

This was linked to priests who would fight off the evil of the Devil for the common folk.

Conflict was avoided by the arrival of the Goblin and Warg army who wanted the treasure out of greed, and the Dwarves decided to ally with the Elves and Men to fight this greater evil in what became known as the Battle of Five Armies.

However, the orcs of the MHI world are good and fight against the evil monsters.

His perception of Middle-earth is biased by a point of view that imagines that divine powers have chosen Gondor to lead the fight against evil.

* Marvel Comics ' Mighty Mouse # 4-5 ( 1991 ) were titled " Mices on Infinite Earths ", and had Mighty Mouse meeting Mighty Mousette and helping the Minotaur, Harebinger, and Piranha fight the evil and powerful Anti-Minotaur.

He is a barbarian that was once a slave to Sabian until he was freed by Princess Ariel and given the Sunsword which he uses as a weapon in his fight against evil wizards and other villains.

According to Wyandot mythology, Iosheka created the first man and woman and taught them many skills, including all their religious ceremonies and rituals, the ability to fight evil spirits, healing, and the use of the sacrament of tobacco.

Shazam informs Billy that he is an ancient Egyptian wizard who has been using his powers for many centuries to fight the forces of evil, but that he is now old and not long for this world.

It was not, thought Pamela, such an evil place after all.

He must have fallen in with evil companions, for he was a simple youth and quite trusting and inexperienced.

nothing evil was happening when that pain was being endured ; ;

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.

From the standpoint of the army of duffers, however, this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas open.

Mr. Philip Toynbee affirms at one point that if he shared the anticipations of Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, if he believed Communism was not only evil but `` also irredeemably evil '', then he might `` think it right to do anything rather than to take the risk of a communist world.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

He was a knight of the Round Table, `` Sir Quintus the Brave '', slaying evil spirits and banshees and vampires and witches with warty noses.

I was afraid to look for fear the evil might still be going on.

In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

In classical times, his strong function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and was therefore called " apotropaios " ( αποτρέπω: to divert ) and " alexikakos " ( αλέξω-κακό: defend, throw away the evil ).

The Greeks gave to him the name αγυιεύς agyieus as the protector god of public places and houses who wards off evil, and his symbol was a tapered stone or column.

The slavery issue was primarily about whether the system of slavery was an anachronistic evil that was incompatible with Republicanism in the United States, or a state system protected by the Constitution.

Tartarus was for the people that blasphemed against the gods, or were simply rebellious and consciously evil.

The mens rea for assault is simply " evil intent ", although this has been held to mean no more than that assault " cannot be committed accidentally or recklessly or negligently " as upheld in Lord Advocate's Reference No 2 of 1992 where it was found that a " hold-up " in a shop justified as a joke would still constitute an offence.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.