pacifist ,

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.

Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.

Milne did not speak out much on the subject of religion, although he used religious terms to explain his decision, while remaining a pacifist, to join the army: " In fighting Hitler ", he wrote, " we are truly fighting the Devil, the Anti-Christ ... Hitler was a crusader against God.

* 1918 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, pacifist, and author ( d. 2007 )

While the early texts condemn killing in the strongest terms, and portray the ideal king as a pacifist, such a king is nonetheless flanked by an army.

George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

* 1841 – Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1932 )

She was a suffragist, a pacifist, an opponent of Woodrow Wilson, a radical socialist and a birth control supporter.

* 1867 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ( d. 1961 )

Nehru, while a pacifist, was not blind to the political and geo-strategic reality of India in 1947.

Kobayashi, who regarded himself as a pacifist, was drafted into the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

* 1828 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

* 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1858 )

* 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1916 )

War, for the pacifist, is always wrong.

Throughout history, many have understood Jesus of Nazareth to have been a pacifist, drawing on his Sermon on the Mount ( see Christian pacifism ).

A metaphor for America was Gary Cooper as the real life Sergeant York who went from hillbilly hell-raiser, to pacifist, to a draftee comparing the Bible to the History of the United States and deciding that his marksmanship against the Germans was righteous.

King was not a pacifist, but he showed little enthusiasm for the Great War ; he faced criticism for not serving in Canada's military and instead working for the Rockefellers.

* February 10 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1833 )

* July 22 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1828 )

* March 18 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1908 )

* January 9 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1867 )

* February 20 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( b. 1844 )

* September 20 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1918 )

* October 3 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1938 )