When the German tide broke into Belgium and poured out over northern France, sweeping all before it, killing, burning, raping, the pacifists no doubt would have accepted the conqueror as the will of God and have made peace then!
What our pacifists desire is not so much peace as bloodlessness.
I don't take any stock inpacifists that don't work in the open.
The two or three pacifists in the Woman's Club seized on the Reverend Pepper's idea with avidity.
There are more pacifists around town than is normal, more in the factory and even in the wire plant.
Clever--what could be more clever than using this absurd obsession of a few pacifists to prevent her enemy from getting shells and shrapnel!
Mr. Pepper, encouraged by the swift gathering of pacifists around him, engaged the Opera House and called for a great mass meeting of protest.
She also believes that the American people are naturally pacifists and that the President will have a big job in front of him.
He now attacked the pacifists in that clever and abusive way which I have only heard once before, when the editor of a flamboyant Sydney paper gave a lecture in the old City Hall at Auckland.
In the year 1913, under Swiss auspices, a meeting of French and German pacifists was arranged at Berne.
Beyond calling him a damned scoundrel, a term which he applied to all pro-Germans, pacifists and half the Cabinet, he did not concern himself about Gedge.
If there are any saintly pacifists in Wellingsford, they keep sedulously out of my way, and they certainly do not haunt my Service Club.
Equally surprising was the lack of opposition to the war on the part of pacifistsand socialists.
Pacifists and pro-Germans immediately organized in opposition; and the movement was hampered by President Wilson's unwillingness to coöperate in any way.
It was at this time that a militant majority was trying to drive through the Senate a declaration of war against Germany, and a handful of pacifists blocked the way in the closing hours of the session, thus causing a delay of several weeks.
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 labour throughout the country.
On the contrary, the pacifists persisted all the more in their illusions.
The thunder of the guns in the Balkan War, while revealing to pacifists the grim realities of the battlefield, did not awake them from their dreams.
After a few months in Berlin, I came to the conclusion that thesepacifists represented at that time (1912) the most widespread but least noisy opinions, the opinions of the majority.
The Limits of Criticism The pacifists and the isolationists are being punished for their errors if their legitimate emotions are not recognized as part of the natural composition of the American mind.
The pacifists back in the States who have been objecting to the government's policy and who have dodged and evaded their duty, ought to be put in jail.
In France Socialists were pacifists abroad and aggressive at home.
In Germany the Socialists were pacifists at home and aggressive abroad.
Many pacifists have tended to exhort about war instead of studying it; they have looked upon it as a thing accursed and irrational, beyond the pale of serious consideration.
Though a pacific nation, we experienced a sudden revulsion against pacifism and Hague tribunals, as though it were the pacifists who had brought on the war.
Actually our pacifists and internationalists have accomplished little, if anything, towards a realisation of this ideal.
And Peter was very glad indeed, for he was never more bored with the whining of pacifists than now when our boys were hurling the Germans back from the Marne and writing their names upon history's most imperishable pages.
Peter had been all thru the Red movement, he knew all these pacifists and Socialists and Syndicalists and I.
Section 84 All over the country the Red trains were moving eastward, loaded with "wobblies" and communists, pacifists and anarchists, and a hundred other varieties of Bolsheviks.
This was plain Bolshevism, and in its most dangerous form, because these fellows had learned to use guns, and couldn't very well be expected to become pacifists right off the bat.
He attended a gathering of Pacifists in the home of a school-teacher.
It had to do with another girl, and the beginning was in the home of Ada Ruth, where a few of the most uncompromising of the pacifists gathered to discuss the question of raising money to pay for their legal defense.
One of the adventures looked forward to by Reds and pacifists in distress was to make a pilgrimage to this palace and obtain some long, green plasters to put over their wounds.
How could any man with red blood in his veins sympathize with these pacifists and traitors?
They were going to give thesepacifists a taste of the war, they were going to put an end to the Red Terror in American City!
So Peter hurried over to these offices, where he found some twenty-five Reds and Pacifists assembled, all in the same state of excitement.
This idea was to constitute the foundation-stone of his mediation and fulfil all the hopes of the American pacifists for a compulsory court of arbitration in international disputes and general disarmament.
Apart from the usual relations with the pacifists and German-Americans already mentioned, which were in no way altered during the election, I held myself aloof as my position demanded.
All American pacifists belonged to the Democratic camp, all militarists belonged to the Republican party.
And the funds of the Liberal Party (which was in power) actually depended chiefly on Quaker Millionaires who were noted pacifists and at whose bidding national honour was jeopardised by our delay in declaring our support of France.
Only a tiny minority remained in opposition, most of whom were pacifists or cranks of one kind or another.
The outlook for religion has been discussed both by puzzled pacifists and by facile forecasters of the fulfilment of their own wishes.
It certainly will never be decided by calling allpacifists cowards and slackers, and all defenders of the course pursued by President Wilson, the son of a clergyman, exponents of Prussian militarism.
To the few pacifists among the clergy all this seems quite unnecessary.
There is an incurable romanticism in the literature of the pacifists that is offensive to men in a tragic struggle.
Just now, it is the Kaiser whom the democracies are marching out to find, and the people are not behaving as the pacifistswould like to have them.
Our pacifists would clear their thinking if they came under shell-fire.
The incident may be taken as symbolic of the experience through which pacifists have gone in this Second World War, too.
Some modern so-called pacifists are opposed to all wars, and some are not.
In the writings of pacifists and non-pacifists concerning theories of and experiences with non-violence, there is a clear lack of uniformity in the use of words.
Cadoux has phrased it, "Pacifism is applicable only in so far as there exist pacifists who are convinced of its wisdom.
Many pacifists have accepted the general thesis of the advocates of non-violent direct action without analyzing its meaning and implications.
Many pacifists are also willing to accept coercion, provided it be non-violent.
But pacifists themselves have not been agreed upon the meanings and implications of these terms, and the opponents of pacifism have hastened to define them in such a way as to deny validity to the pacifist philosophy.
Both pacifists and their opponents have noted this inconsistency in Gandhi's philosophy.
Pacifists and conscientious objectors came principally from the class who held religious scruples against war or the taking up of arms.
Strict accountability" seemed to be a popular watchword, except among pacifists and German sympathizers, but Americans soon began to be killed by the submarines without provoking the Government to action.
The novel institution of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague stands at present in the cross-fire of impatient pacifists and cynical pessimists.
In these artifices the poor pacifists saw a way to get out of their dilemma; it was not a very brilliant way and they were not proud of it, but it was their only chance.
He should not be confounded with those parlour pacifists covered with official decorations and grand cordons of international orders, for whom peace is a gilt-edged investment in quiet times.
Even to-day our pacifists now join with chauvinist critics of a policy which was pursued steadily for many years, and was that of Campbell-Bannerman as well as of Asquith.
But for the minority, which included both our pacifists and our chauvinists, it was either too much or too little.
Both Lenine and Trotzky have spoken and written in terms of utter disdain of pacifist movements in general and of the pacifists of England and America in particular.
The pacifistsand "defeatist" Socialists represented a minority.
That such offensive was needed was obvious and was denied by none except the ultra-pacifists and the Bolsheviki.
Yet among the thousands of Americans in Europe in the month following Poe's death, there was complete unity of opinion that the old Princeton football star had done more for his country than all the pacifists put together.
Probably most of the pacifists would have returned the same verdict regardless of Poe's love for the cause of the Allies.
In this way, by asserting that in Germany at most only a few Socialists and pacifistswithout influence are opposed to the policy of annexation, they succeed in stifling again and again any aspiration towards peace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pacifists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
