Here too we must observe there can be no obligation to support unjust wars.
For to make the person, to whom a promise has been given, liable to release the engagement, the promiser himself must have been forced to give the promise under impressions of unjust fear.
But it is not every unjust design, though indicated by some outward act, which can authorize and direct hostilities.
Am I through fear of a mortal, and by obeying his unjust commands, to incur the wrath of Heaven?
But if two powers engage in a war, equallyunjust on both sides, a third power, united in confederacy with both, will prudently abstain from interference.
So too a nation engaging in an unjust war, the injustice of which she knows and ought to know, becomes liable to make good all the expences and losses incurred, because she has been guilty of occasioning them.
Cicero relates that in this manner the children of Themistocles were reduced to want, nor does he think it unjust that the children of Lepidus should share the same fate.
Aristotle in the third book of his Rhetoric, speaking of the promoters of war, asks, if it is not unjust for a neighbouring people to be enslaved, and if those promoters have no regard to the rights of unoffending nations?
Yet no such compacts can bind either of the parties to the support or prosecution of unjust wars.
For that man is hard and unjust who desires "to reap where he has not sown, and to gather where he has not scattered.
Therefore it is unjust to injure and rob the child for the benefit of the man.
How perverse and unjust it is to banish the fairy tale from the life of the child, because devotion to its charm might prove detrimental to the grown person!
Personally I have never been able to conquer a dislike, which I always put down as absolutely unjustand uncharitable, for the woman.
Where is the hardship then, if no tyrant nor yet an unjust judge sends thee away from the state, but nature, who brought thee into it?
One thing here is worth a great deal, to pass thy life in truth and justice, with a benevolent disposition even to liars and unjust men.
The affection and confidence of this noble people in the hour of disaster were more distressing to me than complaint and unjust censure would have been.
Is the property of the citizen in danger of a violent andunjust seizure and unlawful detention or destruction?
The case was the reverse of the hypothesis, and nothing could have been more unjust than to censure the commanding General for withdrawing a force large enough to induce a bombardment, but insufficient to repel it.
It will be remembered that the Government of the United States, in many harsh and unjust phrases, had refused to recognize the Alabama as a ship of war, and held that the paroles given to her were void.
The Governor-elect in his message spoke, of such anunjust election, as follows: "The recent elections clearly and unmistakably define the popular will and public judgment of Kentucky.
This instantly touched the military pride of Hamilton, who exclaimed against it as an unjust preference, it being his tour of duty.
He urged Washington to appoint a speedy day for the trial, that he might not linger under the odium of an unjust public accusation.
So thought Christophe: and in his desire to hurt those who had wounded him, he did not see that he was being as unjust as those of whom he spoke.
He could he thought find common ground with a party which was as unjust as himself towards Brahms and the "Brahmins.
For some months past he had fallen into the bad habit of not letting any unjust attack go unanswered.
He was not unjust enough to assume hypocrisy in all those who believe.
The Scotch will attribute merit to people of any nation rather than the English; the English have a morbid habit of petting and praising foreigners of any sort, to the unjust disparagement of their own worthies.
Then a sense that Heaven was unjust to her and her boy filled her with grim rebellion, and she prayed no more; and Perrault, by his constant return to the subject and speculations on it, kept her mind on it far more.
If the defendants were innocent, would they not feel indignation at this unjust accusation?
I should be unjust to the dauntless spirit of the South and to my own convictions if I did not make this plain in this presence.
The only redress against any unjust exercise of this absolute power, is by complaint to the king; and you know, what chance a poor man has for being redressed in this manner.
Neither of which suspicious transactions came to any result for Albert; as indeed most of his unjust graspings proved failures.
Flat insanity, King Ottocar thought; refused to acknowledge such a Kaiser; would not in the least give up his unjust properties, or even do homage for them or the others.
I wish to unite with you to put an end to the unjust proceedings of that government.
The electors, and particularly those of the sections of Paris, angrily demanded to know, upon what public services the deputies of the Convention founded their title to a privilege so unjust and anomalous.
Siêyes is said to have suggested this unjust and arbitrary measure, which, bearing a colour of revenge and persecution, was highly unpopular.
Again, by this unjust proceeding, Buonaparte prepared for France and her capital the severe moral lesson inflicted upon her by the allies in 1815.
Moreau, dissatisfied with the indifference with which he had been treated by Buonaparte, and acquainted with his intentions and projects, was already thinking of forsaking his cause, which he regarded as unjust and traitorous to the nation.
This was an unjust belief, but it cannot be denied that there were specious grounds for the accusation.
But I do assure you that he must be entirely misunderstood, if he can ever appear to say an unjust thing of any woman at all, or an unkind one of me.
No one asks or expects the clouds to shape themselves into ethical forms, or the sun to shine only on the just and not on the unjust also.
With the least possible delay, I disabused his mind of that peculiarly unjust misapprehension.
Some officers are drunkards and charlatans; but you would think it unjust if we condemned all on that account.
The only protest I ever knew him to utter was to the correspondent of a journal which had denounced him with great severity: "Your paper is very unjust to me; but time will make it all right.
If General Sherman deemed it unjust to himself individually, he had his remedy, like any other citizen or soldier, in the courts of the country and the justice of the people.
Now, the man to whom he went not only made unjust claims, but put forth these claims in a way to provoke his Christian relative to anger.
Even if juries are well inclined, we have too many instances of the influence of overbearing unjust judges upon them.
The uncertainty which respect them, renders property precarious, and greatly exposes us to the arbitrary decision of unjust judges.
Again, who has aroused in William these unjust suspicions, these ill-founded fears?
So I organized two classes in geography and taught the children of the Just that the world was flat and the children of the Unjust that the world was round.
The Just believed that the world was flat and the Unjust believed that the world was round--" "Which was it?
I had a private school and both the Just and the Unjust sent their children to my school.
The Just wanted me to teach their children that the world was flat and the Unjust wanted me to teach their children that the world was round.
Its pretence of equality is a lie; it is equal in all the form, it is unjust in all the substance.
It will remain, however, a case in point of how a "horse-sense" judge can protect the innocent against unusual and unjust prosecution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unjust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
