Pacifism is the opposition to war and violence, even to the point of allowing self-harm rather than a resort to violent resistance.

Pacifism covers a spectrum of views, including the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved, calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war, opposition to any organization of society through governmental force ( anarchist or libertarian pacifism ), rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals, the obliteration of force except in cases where it is absolutely necessary to advance the cause of peace, and opposition to violence under any circumstance, even defense of self and others.

Pacifism is the belief that violent conflict is never acceptable and that society should not be ready to fight in a conflict ( see disarmament ); the anti-war movement is not necessarily opposed to national defense.

In his reply, Orwell reiterated that " Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist "; defended his work for the BBC's Indian broadcasts and refuted the accusation that he " is intellectual-hunting again.

starts with the assumption that man is a fighting animal ; therefore the nation is a fighting unit, being a community of fighters ... A country or race which ceases to fight is doomed ... Pacifism is the deadliest sin ... Intelligence is of secondary importance ... Will and determination are of the higher worth.

Pacifism covers a spectrum of views ranging from the belief that international disputes can and should be peacefully resolved ; to calls for the abolition of the institutions of the military and war ; to opposition to any organization of society through governmental force ( anarchist or libertarian pacifism ); to rejection of the use of physical violence to obtain political, economic or social goals ; to opposition to violence under any circumstance, including defense of self and others.

; Pacifism ( nonresistance ): Christians should not exercise self-defense or go to war.

* George Orwell wrote in his 1942 essay " Pacifism and the War ", " If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other.

McCahon and Woollaston were concerned with issues of Christianity and Pacifism which became acute during the second world war.

Her domestic and foreign politics lie within the strict lines of Pacifism, and despite overwhelming unpopularity at the time, have resulted in a legacy that helped propel the second wave of feminism and pacifism during the 1960s and 1970s.

Bennett, Scott H. Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 NY: Syracuse Univ.

* Bennett, Scott H. Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963.

* Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 ( 2003 ), by Scott H. Bennett.

* Brown, Dale ( 1985 ) Biblical Pacifism: A Peace Church Perspective.

Consider, for example, Pacifism.

' Politics and Morals ', ' The Idea of Eternal Peace and Pacifism ' were subjects of talks he delivered in Berlin in 1927.

" The Dilemma of Quaker Pacifism in a Slaveholding Republic, 1833-1865 ," Civil War History, Vol.

# Christian Pacifism ( Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991 ), 181 pp.

Apart from the categorical imperative they derive from the metaphysics of the orgasm, the only affirmation they are capable of making is that art is their only refuge.

So far as the existing body of formal principle and procedure is concerned, categorical novelties are not to be anticipated in Jewish-Gentile relationships ; ;

In category theory, an automorphism is an endomorphism ( i. e. a morphism from an object to itself ) which is also an isomorphism ( in the categorical sense of the word ).

Despite the lack of a categorical counterindication, the belief that alcohol and antibacterials should never be mixed is widespread.

In the categorical classification of all beings, all substances are partly the same: man and chimpanzee are both animals and the animal part in man is " the same " as the animal part in chimpanzee.

The central concept which is needed for this purpose is called categorical limit, and can be dualized to yield the notion of a colimit.

The DSM-IV is a categorical classification system.

Its claim to be " atheoretical " is held to be unconvincing because it makes sense if and only if all mental disorder is categorical by nature, which only a biological model of mental disorder can satisfy.

There is a useful categorical interpretation of the map.

For example, an equivalence relation with exactly two infinite equivalence classes is an easy example of a theory which is ω-categorical, but not categorical for any larger cardinal number.

: The categorical proposition " Some man is sick " has the same meaning as the existential proposition " A sick man exists " or " There is a sick man ".

: The categorical proposition " No stone is living " has the same meaning as the existential proposition " A living stone does not exist " or " there is no living stone ".

: The categorical proposition " All men are mortal " has the same meaning as the existential proposition " An immortal man does not exist " or " there is no immortal man ".

: The categorical proposition " Some man is not learned " has the same meaning as the existential proposition " A non-learned man exists " or " there is a non-learned man ".

Radbruch's legal philosophy derived from Neokantianism, which assumes that a categorical cleavage exists between " is " ( sein ) and " ought " ( sollen ).

The categorical dual of an inverse limit is a direct limit ( or inductive limit ).

It is also agreed that " no direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture ".

The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North.

For the beatnik, like the hipster, is in opposition to a society that is based on the repression of the sex instinct.

By upholding his own personal code of behavior, the private detective has placed himself in opposition to a society whose fabric is permeated with crime and corruption.

The idea here is one of discharge but this must stand in opposition to a second view, Plato's notion of the arousal of emotion.

Mr. Balaguer is in control, and opposition leaders have no further excuse to suspect his offer of a coalition government preliminary to free elections in the spring.

His suggestion that the prestige colleges be made the training institutions for medical, law and graduate schools will run into strong opposition from these colleges themselves -- even though what he is recommending is already taking shape as a trend.

More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.

Diametric opposition must persist as to the future course of prices, if there is to persist a market at all.

Pip imagines how Estella would look down upon Joe's hands, roughened by work in the smithy, and the deliberate contrast between her white hands and his blackened ones is made to symbolize the opposition of values between which Pip struggles -- idleness and work, artificiality and naturalness, gentility and commonness, coldness and affection -- in fact, between Satis House and the forge.

In the House, the Southern-Republican coalition is expected to make another major stand in opposition to the Administration's housing bill, while more jockeying is expected in an attempt to advance the aid-to-education bill.

The housing bill is expected to encounter strong opposition by the coalition of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans.

A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

This reign is one which faces opposition from several prophets of Yahweh throughout as well as various consequences because of his marriage to Jezebel, because of his worship of Baal, disobedience to prophetic warnings and words, and also because of the murder of Naboth.

* 1983 – Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport ( now renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport ).

An antipope () or anti-pope is a person who, in opposition to the one who is generally seen as the legitimately elected Pope, makes a significantly accepted competing claim to be the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and leader of the Catholic Church.

Opponents of musical instruments in the Christian worship believe that such opposition is supported by the New Testament and Church history.

It is striking that there is no written opposition to musical instruments in any setting in the 1st century and a half of the churches ( including scripture ).

She expressed reservations over the eventual winner David Cameron, feeling that he did not, like the other candidates, have a proven track record, and she was later a leading figure in parliamentary opposition to his A-List policy, which she has said is " an insult to women ".

One of the most common criticisms of the movement, which does not necessarily come from its opponents, is simply that the anti-globalization movement lacks coherent goals, and that the views of different protesters are often in opposition to each other.