Sentences with phrase «become pacifists»

They'll break cover in order to charge into open terrain where you can pick them off at your leisure, fail to react to your flanking position and even run right past your squad, who in turn completely won't open fire because they've suddenly become pacifists.

And more and more people who buy into such swill become pacifists, ensuring even more rapid expansion of evil.

Such outstanding men as Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Dr. Sherwood Eddy, and many others, became pacifists.

He decided not to have anything to do with «the war business» again and became a pacifist.

Even the majority of those who treasure Underhill's chief works may be unaware that she became a pacifist during her later years.

Unfortunately, there is a lacuna in our story; we do not know how and why Underhill became a pacifist.

No, I did not become a pacifist.

He became a pacifist and was active in the Christian peace movement and in opposition to nuclear weapons.

Most of all, the success of «Testament of Youth» rests on the authentic performance of Alicia Vikander, appearing in virtually every scene, her eyes taking in and interpreting both the horrors of war (she becomes a pacifist) and the glories of romance.

Not exact matches

I debated pacifists in my youth at a youth conference and the thing that became so prominent in my mind was the willingness to be consistent or inconsistent in the principle - I remember a professor telling me he would be willing to sacrifice his wife and child to avoid a violent encounter and while I lauded him for his consistency I abhorred his morality.

Many leading pastors who had supported the war turned against all war and became avowed pacifists.

When I first met her, Mary, who was to become my wife, was secretary of the Cambridge branch of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was founded as a Christian Pacifist Organization early in the twentieth century.

Because pacifism is an abstract term and means different things to different people, the claim that «Jesus was not a pacifist» becomes as pointless and misleading as saying «Jesus was not a liberal» or «Jesus was not a conservative.»

In his 1940 essay, «Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist,» Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: «Nothing is more futile and pathetic than the effort of some [Christians] who find it necessary to become involved in the relativities of politics, in resistance to tyranny or in social conflict, to justify themselves by seeking to prove that Christ was also involved in these relativities, that he used whips to drive the money - changers out of the Temple...»

Reinhold Niebuhr, more and more convinced that the law of love can not be an absolute guide of conduct in social morality and politics, defected from the ranks of the FOR early in 1934 and became a kind of bête noire to pacifists — especially to those who claimed that pacifism was politically adequate.

The Century absorbed a Christian socialist periodical, the World Tomorrow, in August of that year, and its editor in chief, Kirby Page, a noted pacifist, became a Century contributing editor.

I may be the very worst pacifist, but perhaps with time I'll become a better one... or at least one who doesn't shout at the TV.

But sometimes I get the idea that, particularly with the younger folks, it's become something of a fad - like, they've read one Shane Claiborne book, changed their Facebook profile to «Christ follower,» made a few protest signs, and called themselves pacifists, without really wrestling with some of the challenging implications of this position.

In other words, if the pacifist becomes involved without being partisan, his nonviolence remains authentic, in the contrary case, nonviolence becomes a means of propaganda.

If the international community needed proof that Germany has become an intrinsically pacifist country, this provided it.

In 1916, at a trial of leading pacifists, the prosecutor, Archibald Bodkin argued: «War would become impossible if all men were to have the view that war was wrong!»

In fact, after helping heal a wounded dragon and secretly training him as a sort of pet, Hiccup becomes, in essence, a pacifist warrior.

A beautifully complex film about why we fight, Howard Hawks's WWI heart - stirrer comes from the diary of Alvin York, a poor Tennessean and religious pacifist who nonetheless took up a rifle and became an ace marksman.

Black people, especially, are expected to take on the pacifist, peace - making and non-violence route to the extent that self - defense becomes radicalized.

Hard - core pacifists are advised to stay away from this film, since it tells the story of a man who starts out as one but ultimately becomes a WWI war hero.

The Kibbo Kift Kindred was formed in 1920 by commercial artist, writer and pacifist John Hargrave after he became disillusioned with the perceived militaristic tendencies of the Boy Scout movement, of which he was a key figure.

Formed by the artist, writer and pacifist John Hargrave after becoming disillusioned with the Boy Scout movement, the Kibbo Kift philosophy was based on a shared appreciation of nature and handicraft, as well as a commitment to world peace.

Partially as a result of her strong pacifist politics and opposition to World War I, Lee became somewhat estranged from the literary establishment, although she continued to write prolifically until her death.