pacifistic
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Another refreshing commentary on pacifistic views comes from a Quaker, Scott Simon, a National Public Radio talk show host and, at least earlier in life, a pacifist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
His father was the choir director of the First Congregational Church in Norwich, elevating the prominence of the pacifistic family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2018
Yet Orwell belonged for a time to the pacifistic Independent Labour Party, deplored the sadism of communists in Spain and felt uneasy with gratuitous violence in media.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2017
Leo Szilard, an escaped Hungarian physicist, took a draft of a letter to Einstein, who, although pacifistic, signed the final version.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
But the Rumans had no desire to assist the Greek bureaucrats who oppressed them, and the Tsar Alexander had been converted by the experiences of 1812-13 to a pacifistic respect for the status quo.
From The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey by Forbes, Nevill
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