pacifist

Miyazaki is a noted pacifist, but “Princess Mononoke” is his most humanist work.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

“While hardly a pacifist country,” America has, Mr. Mandelbaum writes, tried to establish peace and nonbelligerency as “a permanent condition of international affairs.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo's further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage showed.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

More recently the late Shinzo Abe, Kishi's grandson, became an advocate of amending the so-called pacifist clause during his time in office.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

On one trip back to Boston, he asked Tom White to give him ten thousand dollars in cash, which he planned to smuggle into Haiti and turn over to the underground pacifist resistance.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

Criticized by Yankee pacifists for resorting to violence, Clay replied, “how then can you ask me to go unarmed and yet manfully vindicate those doctrines which every where have been denounced with death?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025

Both are pacifists who raised their children at the kibbutz, where everybody knows their neighbors.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

"These people are not pacifists; they have intentionally or otherwise become pawns of the aggressor," Wang wrote.

From Reuters ● Oct. 12, 2023

“On issues of strategy and politics, many of the Social Democrats are dyed-in-the-wool pacifists, and he must pay attention to them.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2023

What standing could such dedicated pacifists enjoy among veterans of the Revolution, who, as Jackson put it, “at the risk of their lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis