Associations to the word «Pacificism»

Wiktionary

PACIFICISM, noun. General ethical opposition to war or violence.

Dictionary definition

PACIFICISM, noun. The doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable.
PACIFICISM, noun. The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope