Sentence Examples:
It converted sensitive introverts into pacifists.
These pacifists belie their own construction.
One pacifist constitutes a quorum in any society.
Could I be a pacifist or a conscientious objector?
The sabotage of the pacifists; what price pacifism?
I ain't a hypocrite, and I ain't a pacifist.
Then I remembered that he was an irreconcilable pacifist.
That's what our good pacifists never condescend to explain.
Nor should we be deceived by the pallid pacifist.
Whiskers-on-the-moon's pacifist pig should not get it, anyhow.
All this made a species of Fabian pacifist of me.
We had been prepared to be altruistic pacifists, and ...
The pacifist is fain to babble of the "disciplines of peace."
Yes, that's what these beastly pacifists never seem to grasp.
In this respect, indeed, the pacifist reform is peculiarly hampered.
Pacifists might still waver as to the justice of the cause.
As for Natalie herself, she ought to be interned as a dangerous pacifist.
Persistent pacifist propagandists to-day may well take warning from that utterance.
Afterwards became a pacifist M.P.; here he is again with war paint and tomahawk.
The most pacific of pacifists would draw a tight breath at such proceedings.
Philosophically a liberal and a pacifist, he was markedly sympathetic toward the Chinese.
He had the energy of a high-powered car and the hopefulness of a pacifist.
When this storm had subsided, Henry Ford rose to renew the pacifist attack.
Even a pacifist would, I imagine, charge if a good piper played in front of him.
Later he was editor of a pacifist newspaper which was suppressed for alleged treason.
Even the yaks, that one had supposed to be fearsome beasts, are mild benevolent pacifists.
Through the activity of this organization, pacifists everywhere were denounced and cast into jail.
It took a strong pacifist stomach indeed to contemplate such an issue of events without flinching.
It is, therefore, of singular importance after disquieting delay to see the real Pacifist appear.
Cries the pacifist who has now risen, his eyes ablaze with denunciation of the minister.
In justice to the pacifist elements it must be stated that they were up against bayonets.
Phil was out there hollering for rearmament in the thick of the old pacifist days.
The pacifists say that it is useless to arm because war cannot be prevented by armaments.
I had before me a small sheaf of pacifist prints, and they had not the advertisement.
Can nothing be done, asks a pacifist, to save our children from the insidious grip of militarism?
And I can't get away from the thought that we are here as conquerors, not as pacifists.
Bryan has always been a genuine pacifist, and later sacrificed his Ministerial appointment to his convictions.
What would my pacifist friend do if he saw a maniac attacking his children with a hatchet?
The fact of her weeps at departures, shell shocks, amputations; grows timid and organizes pacifist societies.
The mistake of the pacifist has all along been the assumption that bellicose impulses have died away.
Only a tiny minority remained in opposition, most of whom were pacifists or cranks of one kind or another.
How could any man with red blood in his veins sympathize with these pacifists and traitors?
Though this was only a bit of the conversation, we soon found out that he was an avowed pacifist.
The dreams of the pacifists are fatal to the pragmatic virtues and to the virility of the race.
There is an incurable romanticism in the literature of the pacifists that is offensive to men in a tragic struggle.
Perhaps he had some inklings of the danger to the country when our foreign affairs are managed by pacifists.
I was such a pacifist that I was militant in it and sometimes alienated even my admirers by my doctrine.
He would find several ideals of non-resistance, which taken as they stand would be rather too pacific for any pacifist.
And it will have to be faced by all reformers, whether they are pacifists or idealists, on ethical or political grounds.
With the help of Smith he had demonstrated the efficacy of pacifist methods, and saved the island from bombardment.
If we are really on the rampage, the other person may be a perfect pacifist and still call down our ire.
A fanatical pacifist, who went into daily trances and preached the sacred brotherhood of all races, creeds and colors.
I should like to show this picture to our pacifists, who always act as though war were nothing but a hideous carnage.
You told me the other day you were a pacifist during the war and that you sympathized with Prussia in her humiliation.
In my French work, I strongly took issue with the views of our pacifists as expressed by their leader and their press.
Jimmie Higgins went into the Socialist local now and then, to pay his dues and to refresh his soul on pacifist speeches.
Different as are the positions of the absolute and the relative pacifists, in practice they find themselves united in their logical condemnation of violence as an effective means for bringing about social change.
This vision of the world's willing acceptance of the sovereignty of Jehovah's justice Isaiah shares with his contemporary, Micah, both prophets seeming to choose it as a text from some forgotten earlier pacifist.
Again, this exclusion is doubtless aided by the efforts of some pacifists, who believe that, ostrich-like, we should hide our heads in the sand, to avoid acknowledging the existence of something we do not like.
He was opposed to it, not from a general pacifist tendency, but because, in his opinion, an efficiently pursued policy of alliance would in a few years considerably strengthen the powers of the Monarchy.
Gandhi stands out as the supreme example of a political revolt which has insisted on this principle, and hence as a model to be followed in any pacifist movement of social, economic, or political reform.
Now confusing this character of the war with some sort of rational dispute about something, the pacifists try in every way to stop it, so that the "issue" may be reasoned out, debated, discussed, negotiated.
They say that a drowning man remembers everything that ever happened in his life; perhaps that was not true of Jimmie, but certainly he remembered every pacifist argument he had ever heard in his life.
The active pacifists, however, are not of this class: they are not men without impulsive force but men in whom some impulse to which war is hostile is strong enough to overcome the impulses that lead to war.
There was a new edition of the Worker just out, filled with bitter protests, and the Germans and the pacifists wanted to pledge the local to a movement for a general strike of labor throughout the country.
The "absolute" pacifist places at the very apex of his scale of values respect for every human personality so great that he cannot inflict injury on any human being regardless of the circumstances in which he finds himself.
The peace party was always ready to lure the ship of state out of its true course by using false lights, even when certain to bring about a universal wreck in which the "pacifists" would suffer with the rest.
Democracy, in which pacifists had placed high hopes, has failed as a protective social force; but democracy is not yet democracy, for it consists of men only, and democratic men do not differ from other men in instinct.
It is difficult to see how any German who is not a convinced pacifist should do otherwise than prepare with all his energies for the next war, unless some other way is made possible of escape from a tormenting servitude.
At the present time, through agitation and conference, a world sentiment against war is increasing, and pacifists in every land constitute an expanding group of like-minded men and women who are determined that wars shall cease in the future.