Sentences with phrase «unjust order»

The persons that are favored by the present unjust order considered this theology as a dangerous enemy.

The doctrine can (theoretically) have teeth at several points: refusal to obey an unjust order, «selective conscientious objection» when called to serve an unjust cause, suing for peace when one can not win without using unjust means, prosecuting a war crime.

Opposing an unjust order, creating a state of disorder out of which (depending on how fluid the situation is) renewal may issue — this is acceptable, provided that the users of violence do not pretend that they are creating order; what they are creating is one more injustice.

We must understand that when a man considers violence the only resort left him, when he sees it, not as a remedy and the harbinger of a new day, but as at least an indictment of the old, unjust order, when he thinks of violence as a way of affirming his outraged human dignity (his pride!)

First, no one can hold «this kind of discourse» unless (as we have seen) he is also and simultaneously acting as spokesman for the oppressed and attacking the unjust order with every nonviolent weapon.

Army personnel who refuse to obey unjust orders, draft resistors, people who withhold income taxes because of Vietnam are being branded traitors.

Not exact matches

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Someone like Camus, in The Rebel, would say that one is basically innocent in that no matter how good he is toward others and sincere toward himself he still must die, and that the order of the world is therefore unjust.

In this way the oppressive political order, unjust exploitation, war for security and survival, and harmony with the nature will be expelled from the created order of God, and justice, peace, and integrity of creation will be fulfilled in the Garden of God.

In one of his final speeches, King admonished: «If our nation can spend $ 35 billion dollars a year to fight an unjust, evil war in Vietnam, and $ 20 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, it can spend billions of dollars to put God's children on their own two feet right here...» MLK's talking points of tapping into America's financial resources in order to help the poverty - stricken across the land were directly at odds with the economic status quo, and that is part of what got him killed.

Peace based on a desire for mere survival can be idolatrous, can be unjust in our acceptance of some lesser evil — the enslavement of Eastern Europe, a totalitarian government, a monolithic defense establishment — in the name of security and order.

Father Regamey makes the same distinction, but in more classic fashion: «The violence that is an unjust aggression, from outside, against persons, is bad violence, even though this injustice be called order.

To put it starkly, Jesus must disbelieve in the God who loves our friends and hates our enemies in order to envision a God who manifests a compassionate perfection toward «the just and the unjust» as he does in the Sermon on the Mount.

These persons can easily elicit anxiety or give offense and incur needless guilt if their ordering of resources is unwise, unjust, ill - conceived, or poorly administered.14

Oftentimes those of us who are privileged and powerful want a God who sanctions our own complicity in unjust social orders or our exploitation of other forms of life.

The UN system, set up basically to legitimize and continue that unjust world order of Western domination, will be under pressure from the poor peoples.

By implication it encouraged the prophetic radical aspect of religious life, which insisted on criticizing any defective and unjust social order.

Obedience is not to be construed as including compliance with unjust social orders.

This went along with the acceptance of the dominant social order, and hence favoured the socially unjust status quo.

Yet another example is that of nonviolent protestors at abortion clinics who defy unjust restrictions of their freedom of speech in order to plead the case for the unborn to women contemplating abortion.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the civil rights movement promoted, not rage and disruption, but nonviolent civil disobedience, accepting the penalties imposed under what protesters deemed unjust laws in order to awaken consciences to the injustice of those laws.

When he confronted unjust laws, people said he should stick to God's laws, but when he did just that, they said «law and order» must prevail.

Here an eternal divine order prevails, here it does not rain both upon the just and upon the unjust, here the sun does not shine both upon the good and upon the evil, here it holds good that only he who works gets the bread, only he who was in anguish finds repose, only he who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved, only he who draws the knife gets Isaac.

A preemptive war is unjust for a very simple reason: it can not be just to condemn masses of people to certain death in order to avert the potential death of an equal or lesser number of people.

There would be no external standards of what is right and wrong, just and unjust, moral and immoral, by which its results could be judged; there would be no guarantee that, even in the absence of outside intervention, globalization would be a benign process; and there would be no assurance that in a free society, left to itself, we could count on an evolution of moral beliefs to generate values which would continue to underpin the market order.19

This is a double injustice: they are victims of the oppression of an unjust economic order or an unjust political distribution of power, and at the same time they are deprived of the knowledge of God's special care for them.

So we need to reform the present unjust social order.

In this situation we must rethink what is Reformation in relation to the existing unjust social order.

Latin American theology introduced a new mediation of social science in order to know and to interpret social and historical reality and to propose concrete ways of transforming the unjust society.8

What values does the very idea of world order, world harmony possess, and could it ever in the least justify the unjust suffering of personality?

For, stripped of armed support, an unjust, oppressive government or social order can save itself only by mending its ways.

«When these words are said by someone, whether he or she, rich or poor, they can challenge the existing unjust social order, because such souls are free from idolatry.

He sought after false accusations and unjust reprimands as opportunities of humility; and such was his obedience that, when a room - mate, having no more paper, asked him for a sheet, he did not feel free to give it to him without first obtaining the permission of the superior, who, as such, stood in the place of God, and transmitted his orders.

What value does the very idea of world order, world harmony possess, and could it ever in the least justify the unjust suffering of personality?

Indeed, he does not shrink from taking a criminal as an example, perhaps one well known at the time, since the children of light can learn even from the children of darkness: that unjust steward who is put out of his office does not think of using excuses in order to hold onto his position; he thinks only how, with one final deceit, he can make his future secure while he still has the ability to do so (Luke 16:1 — 8).

Vlade does stricken very well: Finding a whistle astonishingly unjust and subversive to the world order, he exhibits his displeasure with outstretched arms and an imploring look to the heavens, followed by an animated monologue to set the ref straight.

There was a need therefore for government to act decisively in order to address this unjust and unfair imbalance ``.

Firstly, while we would surely want somewhat intelligent machines to be able to refuse to unjust (or illegal) orders, they may also decide against saying «no» to patently unjust wars, and to unjust actions within wars, because they may have learned that these actions are the most expedient way to achieve their specified goal.

Radical feminists view society as fundamentally a patriarchy in which men dominate and oppress women, and seek to abolish the patriarchy in order to liberate everyone from an unjust society by challenging existing social norms and institutions.

An aging Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) dons his Zorro mask and cape to spoil a public execution ordered by the unjust ruler Don Rafael Montero (Stuart Wilson).

«The Guggenheim Fellowship will allow me to write in more detail about specific cases, and also to synthesize them in order to develop a more general theory of educational justice in unjust contexts,» Levinson said.

He suggests that good teachers don't want to protect bad teachers, but they do want due process in order to prevent unjust termination.

Radical feminists view society as fundamentally a patriarchy in which men dominate and oppress women, and seek to abolish the patriarchy in order to liberate everyone from an unjust society by challenging existing social norms and institutions.

As a result, Delsin is forced to the flee the DUP in order to find other superhumans and a solution for stopping this unjust vindication of the conduits.

All that aside from the fact that since day one Chris Roberts has been blatantly lying to backers in order to continue his penchant for unjust enrichment.

As the country reacts to the latest iteration of the ban, the conclusion of the original letter still stands as a bold declaration: «The entirety of the Executive Order is unjust and must be overturned.»

Since the desires of the climate movement are to limit the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in order to ensure a safe environment in which we can live long into the future, protest actions taken by the movement are not necessarily seen as moral objections to unjust laws in the same way sitting at a lunch counter or taking a seat at the front of a bus obviously are.

In the civil sphere, it may be appropriate to issue claim against the fraudsters for deceit, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, knowing receipt, conspiracy, dishonest assistance etc, and seek interim remedies such as search information, freezing, Norwich Pharmacal and Bankers Trust orders.

Deciding it was unjust for the usual costs consequences to apply, Mr Justice Mann made no order as to costs.

«They went where the need was and they ensured to the extent possible that people who were being marginalized by the unjust and ill conceived executive orders were provided the best possible help.»