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pacifist , (185 uses)
Just as I know I would make a bad soldier even though I cannot sincerely call myself a pacifist, so too I would not be either a hangman by profession or, if I could avoid it, even a member of a hanging jury.
pacifist and (106 uses)
His decision to fight in the war caused a rift between him and his older brother Tom Attlee, who, as a pacifist and a conscientious objector, spent much of the war in prison.
pacifist . (60 uses)
Grothendieck's political views were radical and pacifist.
pacifist who (25 uses)
His philosophy was cited as a major inspiration by Mohandas Gandhi, an Indian independence leader and pacifist who self-identified as an anarchist.
pacifist views (15 uses)
He was also from an early date an outspoken socialist, often ( but not always, as the beginning of the First World War ) sympathising with pacifist views.
pacifist movement (15 uses)
Dolcino left Vercelli between 1280 and 1290 and the researches of Orioli show that in the same period the fights between Guelphs and Ghibellines caused many victims on both sides in the city ; the fear of being involved in these fights could better explain his decision to leave and join the initially pacifist movement of Segarelli.
pacifist stance (12 uses)
Critics opine that he completely failed to gauge the thoughts and feelings of the masses – his introduction of Hindi and the Madras Scheme of Elementary Education have both been extensively criticised while his pacifist stance during the Quit India Movement and his " C. R. Formula " angered the majority of his colleagues in the Indian National Congress.
pacifist in (11 uses)
The minor god Kahungunu is " a pacifist in spirit ".
pacifist position (9 uses)
By 1937, Labour had jettisoned its pacifist position and came to support rearmament and oppose Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.
pacifist organization (9 uses)
") in 1889 and founded an Austrian pacifist organization in 1891.
pacifist ; (8 uses)
The experience made him a pacifist ; he would later write, " Anybody who thinks that war is romantic obviously hasn't gone through one ," and later say, " It was a nightmare that's permanent.
pacifist group (7 uses)
The Christian pacifist group, the Plowshares Movement, and the women's right-to-vote group, the Suffragettes, would have also used violent direct action to advance their aims.
pacifist ideas (7 uses)
In the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna refutes the pacifist ideas of Arjuna and uses various arguments to convince him that he must fight and kill in the impending battle.
pacifist beliefs (7 uses)
His deeply held humanitarian and pacifist beliefs shaped both his life and his music: he served a prison sentence as a conscientious objector in the Second World War.
pacifist or (6 uses)
Red man or white man, pacifist or killer, the forest would accept them all -- knowing that it could thrive equally well on slaughter and beneficence ; ;
pacifist groups (6 uses)
Pérez Esquivel began working with popularly based Latin American Christian pacifist groups during the 1960s.
pacifist ( (6 uses)
* 1941 – Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist ( b. 1905 )
pacifist magazine (5 uses)
In August 1974, before Stirling was ready to go public with GB75, the pacifist magazine Peace News obtained and published his plans, and eventually Stirling-dismayed by the right-wing character of many of those seeking to join GB75-abandoned the scheme.
pacifist Fellowship (5 uses)
In the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation ( FOR ), Rustin practiced nonviolence
pacifist writer (5 uses)
Born Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Catlin, Williams is the daughter of a political scientist and philosopher Sir George Catlin, and the feminist and pacifist writer Vera Brittain.
pacifist principles (5 uses)
* Complete disarmament of Japan in accordance with pacifist principles.
pacifist activities (4 uses)
Meanwhile, Russell spent much of 1918 in prison because of his pacifist activities.
pacifist " (4 uses)
" Nuclear pacifist " organisations:
pacifist conference (4 uses)
The first body to use the name " Fellowship of Reconciliation " was formed as a result of a pact made in August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War by two Christians, Henry Hodgkin ( an English Quaker ) and Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze ( a German Lutheran ), who were participating in a Christian pacifist conference in Konstanz in southern Germany.
pacifist but (4 uses)
Contrary to what is also sometimes said, Holst was not a pacifist but wanted to enlist as his friend Vaughan Williams did, but he was rejected as unfit: he suffered neuritis in his right arm — something that caused him to seek help from several amanuenses in scoring The Planets.

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