Sentences with phrase «still pacifists»

(They're still pacifists, it's merely to cross t's and dot i's.)

I am still a pacifist, then, set against war — most of all against expeditionary war in defense of democracy, peace, freedom, religion, or anything else high and noble.

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Starting out as a liberal pacifist in World War II, Lefever's was a stormy path to the Niebuhrian «realism» that he staunchly defended during the Vietnam years and defends still today.

I once asked a pacifist Christian professor many years ago the above question and he stated he would try and persuade that indivisual to cease and if he wouldnt he still wouldnt come to the conclusion that killing him would be okay.

In 1929 he served on the executive committee of the League for Independent Political Action and was still active in the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the leading pacifist organization on the American scene.

I am still entirely pacifist and more and more convinced that the idea that this or any other war is «righteous» or will achieve any creative result of a durable kind, is an illusion.

Pacifists and defenders of just war can agree that every life is tainted with sin, and that evil will inevitably arise, but still disagree about how we ought to respond when it does arise.

Still it seems as though everybody tries hard to lay claim to the man from Nazareth — the revolutionary and the pacifist, the Marxist and the capitalist, the evangelical and the liberationist.

In other words, are they pacifists by choice, or are they still bound by their terms of surrender and the treaties they signed?

Bale's caged ferocity can still be unnerving, particularly when Blocker confronts a pacifist (Bill Camp), but he's still an actor who's desperately in need of a role that doesn't allow him to fetishize disconnection.

We soon learn that the bloody despot's two main rivals - a former pacifist and still socialist Ajene Xola (Curtiss I» Cook) and a Brooklyn dwelling capitalist / rebel opportunist Kuman - Kuman (George Harris)- have put aside their differences to unite against him.

Hailed by the New York Times on its Paris release as «one of the great films in motion picture history,» Raymond Bernard's Wooden Crosses, France's answer to All Quiet on the Western Front, still stuns with its depiction of the travails of one French regiment during World War I. Using a masterful arsenal of film techniques, from haunting matte paintings to jarring documentary - like camerawork in the film's battle sequences, Bernard created a pacifist work of enormous empathy and chilling despair.

Jesus» message of patience and non-violent advocacy was interpreted within this context to specifically advocate for non-violent, pacifist, yet still zealous spread of the early Church, directly in contrast with the Sicarii approach.