"Objector" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the conscientious objector in the Great War has been just as odious as Russian treatment of the Finns or Prussian treatment of war prisoners, and even more foolish, since it strikes at ...
— Essays in War-Time - Further Studies In The Task Of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... previous studies in the dead languages, which are required before an admittance can be obtained in our common colleges, the objector proceeds.] ...
— A Series of Letters In Defence of Divine Revelation • Hosea Ballou
... homo, as those above given. Physical differences, indeed, there are between man and the other tribes of mammalia; but these differences are more matters of anatomical detail, than such salient notable exponents as would at once be recognised and admitted by the sceptical objector. The strength, moreover, of these differences resides in the whole collectively, and not in any one taken singly. If, however, the student take as his grounds for induction the habits of the species, instead ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various
... want the burglar to kill you, so you would summon a policeman to do whatever killing might be necessary. In that case, are you a moral objector to killing, or are you merely a coward who relies on another to do the ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys with Pershing's Troops - Dick Prescott at Grips with the Boche • H. Irving Hancock
... peace. Who then will be bold enough to say, after these remarks, that there could be any thing like the danger and difficulties in emancipating the slaves there, which existed when the slaves of St. Domingo were made free? But some objector may say, after all, "There is one point in which your analogy is deficient. While Toussaint was in power, the Government of St. Domingo was a black one, and the Blacks would be more willing to submit to the authority of a black (their ...
— Thoughts On The Necessity Of Improving The Condition Of The Slaves • Thomas Clarkson
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