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Despite his pacifist teaching, however, young Lee's earliest ambition was to become a soldier.
Evidently the pacifists have betrayed it with their doctrine of passive acceptance of wrong.
Fred Moore Vagabond pacifist who hated money, loved technology, and co-founded Homebrew Club.
Perhaps we are justified in accepting opposition to violence as the heart of the pacifist philosophy.
Again, one of the first pacifists and advocates of international arbitration was born in Geneva.
The inertia and reluctance of pacifist or partisan representatives would have been broken by Roosevelt.
Much of the present confusion in pacifist thought arises from a failure to make this distinction.
The present generation will probably not live to see this great pacifist movement fully completed.
The psychological and the biological pacifists are hardly less emphatic in their condemnation of war.
The case of the pacifists, like that of their opponents, was based frankly upon national self-interest.
I believe that the calculations of some of these extreme and apparently quite unreasonable "pacifists" are right.
To the pacifist who holds such a position, non-violence is imperative even if it does not work.
The pacifist does not represent the peace movement in its freest and most significant form.
He plainly considered that he had done all that could reasonably be expected of any pacifist.
Objections to the Western Pacifist settlement will come from several quarters, including the Pacifist quarters.
Woe to the nation which allows itself to be deceived by the sentiment and cowardice of pacifists.
It would be more correct to say that with few exceptions they believed themselves to be pacifists.
While the pacifist governors of many northern states were ridiculing the very idea of war, Gov.
Indeed, I think we may rightly be described as an army of pacifists in defense of our beliefs.
The "pacifists" in the Allied and neutral countries were more or less active, but received little encouragement.
They were pacifists, and when they got an opportunity to preach their doctrine, they accepted it.
The best example of this superiority of attitude is to be seen in the people who are called pacifists.
Yet, somehow, the pacifists seem to have singled out the rich as mainly responsible for the war.
You are pacifists, and you suspect that the Germans, who were not pacifists, were right after all.
Although he found himself in the company of the pacifists, he never wholly belonged to that faith.
Hitler thus proves he feels that pacifist doctrine would be dangerous to his regime, as it would.
There are more pacifists around town than is normal, more in the factory and even in the wire plant.
We have already seen that pacifists of many shades of opinion are united in their refusal to participate in war.
This should make a strong appeal to the professional pacifists who pretend that they want to save life.
Liberal, radical and pacifist opponents of the war rallied around it as the last great hope of civilization.
We may recognize, however, that this second stage of the pacifist program has, undoubtedly, made large advances.
Second, they were anxious to make a strong bid for the support of the pacifists of the Allied countries.
We are again forced to the conclusion that it is violence as we have defined it to which the pacifist objects.
The growth of the doctrine of laissez-faire and of free trade gave a new impetus to the pacifist movement.
Germany has come out in her true colors, and the mildest of pacifists feels a stirring of the blood.
Then there were the honest pacifists, who regarded all war, even defensive war, as disastrous to the workers.
I will not draw the obvious pacifist moral of the intense folly of human concentration upon such a process.
The Householder, who was also something of a Pacifist on appropriate occasions, but never a blind one, stood near.
Jimmie was quite clear on that point now, and for the time being the pacifist was dead in him.
Those words, by the way, were not said by a warrior, but by the eminent pacifist, Bertrand Russell.
Here, we are told, is a means of social action that works in achieving the social goals to which pacifists aspire.
He was a scholar, he was a Socialist and a pacifist, he had a sense of humor to keep him balanced.
Do you think I had a good excuse, when a Hun and a pacifist made such an insulting remark to me?
She had heard the phrase used by a pacifist orator in the Park and considered it apt and telling.
Neither of them understand patriotism; and yet every trembling pacifist in time of war is a misfortune to his country.
What the static pacifist does not perceive is that he is hopelessly conservative and stationary in a swiftly moving world.
There is a much larger percentage of pacifists in the United States than in any other of the larger nations.
It was his love for the Volunteers, the love of a man instinctively pacifist, that made him give that order.
Charlie was a pacifist, too, as long as the country was out of war, and there was something to argue about.
Look at it any way you will, war, according to the pacifist notion, is a real Klondike for manufacturers of war-materials.
The cheerful optimism of those pacifists who looked for the speedy extinction of war has lately aroused much scorn.
This explanation of the great decision is an absurd mistake, but the pacifists have had some excuses for making it.
The neglect of any such dynamic conception of world society is revealed in all the proposals of the static pacifists.
Somebody who heard the word "peace" shouted: "He's a pacifist," and people near at hand began to hit at him.
People who used the war as an opportunity to have fun were beginning to be treated almost as coldly as the pacifists.
The recognized attitude in public circles, both on the part of officers and other ranks, was that of a pacifist.
She went on to tell how she had attended the trial of three pacifist clergymen a week or two previously.
I had to take into consideration that too pacifist a tone would have an effect at home and abroad contrary to my purpose.
He was very fiercely attacked for this speech by the pacifists at the time, both in public and private.
Probably most of the pacifists would have returned the same verdict regardless of Poe's love for the cause of the Allies.
The rulers and the diplomats were doubly attentive now to adapting their moves to the pacifist psychology of the masses.
He defended his position by invoking the teachings of Henry Thoreau who had also been used as an authority by the pacifists.
Who would ever believe that they belong to the same land that produced Kant, the pacifist, the serene Goethe and Beethoven!
I can perfectly well understand that a man of pacifist inclinations should act thus in the hope of avoiding a war thereby.
Jimmie Higgins heard the answer from those two thousand young throats, and the pacifist in him shrunk deeper out of sight.
You may not like pacifists; I myself admit that during the war I found some of them extremely trying to my patience.
I found that Lynch and Old Joe had shut the pacifist in the closet, and were in the ante-room waiting for me.
As later events were to prove, he was also pretty nearly a pacifist; war for the Union, pure and simple, made no appeal to him.
I considered that he would be a pacifist, cunning enough just to keep inside the law, but with the eyes of the police on him.
"The pacifist propaganda has failed largely because it has not put (and proven) the plea of interest as distinct from the moral plea."
Socialists and labor leaders charged that his agents were encouraging the pacifist minority and opposing the patriotic majority among the workers.
The tall lad, who had dominated the situation so easily, may have considered the part of the pacifist just then a wise move.
Our men found that small bodies of only a handful of members had been delegated, who got the floor easily for the pacifist cause.
There was a streak in her of that same desire to ponder, of that adolescent idealism that had turned her brother socialist and pacifist.
There are other pacifists who would even accept a certain element of violence, as we have defined it, provided it were not physical in nature.
Despite the protests of scattered pacifists, the country was as nearly a unit in its approval of Wilson's action as its heterogeneous national character permitted.
And now let me explain my plan, which I believe is shared by a great number of sane, and other, pacifists in the country.
To the pacifists it meant that the government, whatever may have been intended at the start, had ended by setting impossible conditions of peace.
You can often find simultaneously in the same Pacifist paper, and sometimes even in the utterances of the same writer, two entirely incompatible statements.
The very diversity of terms used to describe the pacifist position shows that none of them satisfactorily expresses the essence of the pacifist philosophy.
The concessions of the Ministers of War and of Marine to the Socialists and pacifists considerably weakened the efficiency of both army and navy.
To be perfectly fair to those who suggest leagues or federations we should remember that we are not dealing with the ideas of pacifists, as such.
For example, he cannot properly be classed, as frequently asserted in recent months, as one of those Utopian pacifists who went about proclaiming war impossible.
It would deserve such separate treatment in any case because of the great amount of attention which it commands in pacifist circles all over the world.
War, with all its train of attendant evils, stalked upon the stage, and was about to test the hearts of pacifist and war-hawk alike.
During the entire period of the war, both at home and abroad, Gompers fought the pacifist and the socialist elements in the labor movement.
It included the extreme pacifist crowd, as well as the vicious red-flag men, and masses of poor, ignorant people who, for example, would say.
Audience charts (that is, how much time he spends addressing workers, pacifists, mothers, minorities, etc.) show which groups he is really trying to reach.
They were going to give these pacifists a taste of the war, they were going to put an end to the Red Terror in American City!
Our Nationalist pacifists are getting so few and so far between, that they will most likely once more disappear and give up the street propaganda.
An anger such as seldom comes to men and such as I had not suspected my pacifist nature capable of, now seized hold of me.
The problem for the reflective pacifist is two-fold: how to keep his own country at peace, and how to preserve the peace of the world.
In the writings of pacifists and non-pacifists concerning theories of and experiences with non-violence, there is a clear lack of uniformity in the use of words.
McLeod treats in short order, but he discusses at considerable length and with sympathy what may be called the humanitarian basis for the pacifist.
Wilson in a revolution would have conducted a Terror, as indeed during the war he did conduct a sort of legal terror among pacifists and radicals.
I am sorry to set friend against friend, but his influence over the cultured and pacifist elements has to be met sternly and at once.
He who was a pacifist was compelled to revolt to his last breath, and on the instruments of his end he must have looked as on murderers.
I suppose I should be called a 'pacifist' if I suggested that that phase was over and that we'd better moderate our tone before we're compelled to.
She said evenly, "I've always considered myself a pacifist, but when somebody starts shooting at me, I forget about it and am inclined to shoot back."
Also, if Beard forced the matter he would greatly inconvenience Butler, who was just then in trouble with his trustees because of his pacifist activities.