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In The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, another Shaw Brothers entry, studio mainstay Gordon Liu plays a warrior who breaks from monastic pacifism to rescue his sister and avenge his family, most of which was killed early in the movie owing to the machinations of an evil general.
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Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
Sometimes, this resistance has been rooted in opposition to war itself: an expression of pacifism or a reaction to the conduct of a particular war.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
But these killings galvanized backlash from those who felt that the time for the pacifism that Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused had passed.
—Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
Diverse comprehensive doctrines — Buddhism, pacifism, asceticism and so on — are all consistent with liberal principles of governance.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
Sometimes, this resistance has been rooted in opposition to war itself: an expression of pacifism or a reaction to the conduct of a particular war.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
But these killings galvanized backlash from those who felt that the time for the pacifism that Martin Luther King, Jr., espoused had passed.
—Rachel Kleinfeld, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2024
Diverse comprehensive doctrines — Buddhism, pacifism, asceticism and so on — are all consistent with liberal principles of governance.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
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“Pacifism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacifism. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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