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

The pacifistic demand or a Federal World State in order to make the abolition of war a possibility 31 IV.

From The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by Oppenheim, L. (Lassa)