L impotent-, impotens, fr. Revolutionary terrorism . State terror .
Pacifism is the belief in peaceful reconciliation of human differences.
Pacifism opposes not only war between nations, but also violent revolution and the use of coercive violence by governments. In modern times, however, pacifism has more often been associated with groups working for political ends and dedicated to nonviolent methods of achieving them. The beliefs that lie at the core of pacifism a respect for life and a consequent repugnance toward killing are ancient. They can be found in the Chinese Taoist doctrine of wu-wei, or nonaction, although this doctrine suggests passivity rather than pacifism in the modern political sense. In ancient India the doctrine of ahimsa nonharming was shared by the Buddhists, by certain elements of traditional Hinduism, and by the Jains.