But, as we shall see, Jesus was not universally
pacifistic. Moreover, this interpretation assumes that the detail about this being a Samaritan village, and the explanation of the reason for the people's refusal to accommodate Jesus, are merely incidental details.
As part of South Korean President Kim Dae Jung's "sunshine policy" of engagement with North Korea, Seoul has been taking a
pacifistic approach, making efforts to prevent North Korea from going through with the test launch.
Faced with scenes of mass misery afflicting telegenic white people by the hundreds of thousands, European socialists, social democrats, even the formerly
pacifistic Greens dropped all their customary objections to heavy-handed, U.S.-led military interventions.
In eastern Holmes County a few Mennonites joined the army, but most Amish and Mennonites remained faithful to their
pacifistic religious beliefs.
Socianism -- more tolerant and
pacifistic, with roots in humanism -- is very important in the alternative tradition of reconciliation.
While Gingrich is sticking to his military planning model, the harsh publicity of 1995 and 1996 has prompted him to make his rhetoric a little more
pacifistic. But in 1997, he may find the other side unwilling to call off the war.
Indeed, Joyce proposes the humanistic,
pacifistic, family oriented Jewish Bloom as Parnell's successor.
In Ossietsky's place in the dock, there appeared now a number of common German citizens of
pacifistic inclinations who found in Tucholsky's words an apt expression of their own sentiments.
It is imperative, I think, to recontextualize Captain Sword and Captain Pen not as a passing bout of
pacifistic sentiment, but rather as part of a more substantive movement by Hunt in middle and late life toward nonviolent convictions.
It seems obvious therefore that Shmuel HaKatan, famous in his generation for his humility and Hillelite
pacifistic nature,(15) would have been the least likely person to have volunteered to compose such a denunciation, unless forced to do so by his lord and master, Gamaliel, whose authoritarianism is referred to critically in so many Talmudic passages.(16) Bearing in mind the presence, even in the academies of learning, of rabbinic spies for Rome, of the ilk of Judah ben Gerim, we can have some inkling of the personal danger in which anyone composing a prayer against Rome would be placing himself, since the identity of their traducer would assuredly be disclosed to the Roman authorities.
After fighting on the Italian and Galician fronts in World War I, he became antimilitary, took to reciting
pacifistic poems in cafes, and was arrested.
The international capitalist hegemonic system is anything but
pacifistic.
