Word: unjustness
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...been wiped out in Russia; I knew that writers and artists and scientists were intimidated . . . but I accepted this as a necessity of socialism. This I can never accept again, and never again can I accept as a just practice under socialism that which I know to be unjust...
...Army officers, but when the Army finally drafted him, he was ranked as a private. Disturbed by the sight of a private bossing officers, his superiors ordered him to wear civilian clothes. Schlesinger apparently enjoys joking about the incident; his friends, however, feel the rank of private was grossly unjust and suggest that humor masks his real embarrassment...
...Clever and unjust men behave like racers who make a good run of it from the start, and collapse on the way from the turn; they . . . end up by being laughed at like a lot of fools, and run away uncrowned with their ears down on their shoulders, but real racers keep on to the finish, and win the prizes and the crown...
...possible for him, by taking account of all these things, to make his choice: keeping his gaze fixed all the while on the nature of the soul, and considering both the worse and the better life, calling it worse if it so leads the soul that it becomes more unjust, and better if it leads the soul to become more just. All else he will leave alone, for we have seen that this is the best choice, both for living and for dying...
Former General Curt-Ulrich von Gerstorff rose to protest. Individuals cannot judge the justice of war, he said; "the individual can only know that every war-even the unjust war-is a threat to his fatherland. Do you expect the fire brigade to stop fighting the fire because the mayor of the town lit the fire himself? There is only one thing we can do: take care that the government is composed of peace-loving...