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  • The government had ended most graduate school deferments; the waiting lists for the National Guard and Reserves were impossibly long; my health was solid; I didn't qualify for CO status-no religious grounds, no history as a pacifist.  (source)
  • I'm a pacifist, a good-natured guy, I've never laid a hand on anybody since I was a kid.  (source)
  • I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth.  (source)
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  • Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.†  (source)
    pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • Is he a man of great physical courage—so great that he will have no half-conscious misgivings about the real motives of his pacifism?  (source)
    pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • Y.T.'s grandpa, who was there for a while, told him that the Nipponese took over Vietnam during the war and treated it with the cruelty that was their trademark before we nuked them and they discovered that they were pacifists.†  (source)
    pacifists = people opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • Is this not a pacifistic religion, this thing you have been spreading?†  (source)
  • There were pacifist zones where no player-versus-player combat was allowed, and player-versus-player zones where it was every avatar for themselves.†  (source)
    pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • But I was finally converted when I encountered the letters of two Quaker brothers, farmers from New York State, whose ideological convictions overcame their pacifism and caused them to enlist, leaving behind a widowed mother.†  (source)
    pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • The guards, some of whom had previously identified themselves as pacifists, fell quickly into the role of hard-bitten disciplinarians.†  (source)
    pacifists = people opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • You have spoken to our pupils here about the Church's bloody deeds and her chastening impatience—but that was very foolish of you, for the zeal of the godly cannot, by definition, be pacifistic.†  (source)
  • "Not a pacifist," said Alex.†  (source)
    pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
  • Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind.†  (source)
    pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes
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