He had ruled all German States in unwavering obedience to the militarist maxim: "In times of peace prepare for war.
While waiting for the day of definite peace among nations, it combats the militarist spirit by doing its utmost to approximate the system of permanent armies to that of national militias.
Since soldiers and policemen are servants of the state, and since the state is the expression of nationalism, the anti-militarist concludes that his supreme enemy is the nation, the master of the soldier.
These few examples are enough to show that the Socialists lend themselves to militarist domestication with the same docility as the "bourgeois" parties.
They have abdicated their critical faculty; they have sacrificed it to themilitarist Moloch.
This is the clergy: Protestant pastors, Catholic priests, Israelitish rabbis; all without distinction have been touched by the militarist grace and have entered the campaign for the good cause.
Emile Boutroux calls them, there is another category, which has likewise been mobilized to defend the militarist spirit and the Hohenzollern dynasty.
Germany happens to be the aggressor now; but if the militarist party in France had had the chance, they'd have struck as quickly.
England can put a stop to such a crime single-handed easily enough if she can keep her knees from knocking together in her present militarist fashion.
You say that we are a nation militarist and greedy for conquest.
After the Japanese defeat the militarist party felt keenly the need for just such a great military revival and a brilliant revanche in Europe.
The attitude of the people of Japan at first was frankly disappointing to those who hoped that the anti-militarist party there would really act.
I am further convinced that the militarist party really controls Japanese policy, and that temporary modifications which have been recently announced do not imply any essential change of national plans and ambitions.
In verity France was no less militarist or absolutist than Germany, nor was England less avid than either.
Mr. Hyndman added that "the most serious danger by which we were threatened was from the most powerful group of capitalists in Europe headed by Hugo Stinnes and backed by Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and the militarist party in Germany.
But the Prussian militarist party, seeing in their grasp the opportunity for which they had planned and plotted these thirty years, were not willing to let it go by, and they did not shrink from the catastrophe which was involved.
There were many men in Germany before the war who were opposed to and saw the dangers arising from militarist ambition and jingo teaching and raised their voices against them in warning.
They have little or nothing in common with an aristocratic and militarist Germany.
But the Roman militarist system left the Roman civilisation in itself unprogressive, and prevented it from being durably fertilised by the Greek.
What is true of the Roman fisc was true till the other day of the Turkish, another product of militarist imperialism, similarly collateral with mental stagnation.
For years pacific and anti-militarist doctrines had been spread and propagated both by the noblest and the vilest elements of the nation.
Billy Sunday, a sort of howling dervish, sprung from heaven knows where, brays to huge crowds a militarist gospel.
In his admirable book La Guerre infernale,[58] Gustave Dupin has pilloried gruesome specimens of militarist Christianity.
The church of the Messiah will not respond to any militarist appeal.
We say with absolute confidence that given a people with a military environment, and either its discomforts produce an anti-militarist feeling, or its glamour evokes a strong militarist feeling.
Apologists of Japan, such as Mr. Bland, are in the habit of telling us that there is a Liberal anti-militarist party in Japan, which is soon going to dominate foreign policy.
China is a country where public opinion has great weight, and where the desire to be thought well of may quite possibly lead a successfulmilitarist into patriotic courses.
The predominance in the body of militarist practice will finally drive out from the soul those unfathomable spiritual elements which are the body's last source power in conflict, and it will in the end defeat its own object, which is power.
We may grant all this, yet be doubtful whether a militarist organization should be the main support of the national being in Ireland.
The body of the national soul may be spiritual or secular, aristocratic or democratic, civil or militarist predominantly.
Let the militarist anti-suffragist assert his belief in government by force if he likes, but let him not try to justify it by the precedents of primitive life.
At the outset there came declarations from nearly every type of British opinion that this war was a war against the Hohenzollern militarist idea, against Prussianism, and not against Germany.
A militarist Germany is a Germany self-condemned to isolation or world empire.
The militarist monomania of Germany will have become incomprehensible; her Welt Politik literature incredible and unreadable.
That lack of any essential hatred does not mean that British opinion is not solidly for the continuation of this war against militarist imperialism to its complete and final defeat.
It is the declared and manifest will of Germany to become predominant in the world that has created the Alliance against Germany, and forged and tempered our implacable resolution to bring militarist Germany down.
The German people sticks to its militarist imperialism as Mazeppa stuck to his horse; because it is bound to it, and the wolves pursue.
Was a working man's paper to say nothing against the enslavement of the working men of Europe by the Kaiser and his militarist crew?
So argued the rebellious Jimmie and his anti-militarist associates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "militarist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
