For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence? — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart,… — Javad Nurbakhsh Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“We should not be surprised that more and more people feel comfortable about consuming animal products. After all, they are being assured… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
“If we take the position that an assessment that veganism is morally preferable to vegetarianism is not possible because we are all… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“Ahimsa is a comprehensive principle. We are helpless mortals caught in the conflagration of himsa. The saying that life lives on life… — Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
The Jain religion in India teaches that because all life is essentially interrelated and interconnected, all living beings should be considered sacred… — Nathaniel Altman Copy Share Image
“Načelno, postoje dva osnovna motiva mog ethosa spoznaje o kojima poslednjih godina najviše volim da govorim i pišem: gađanje i odricanje od… — Cedomil Veljacic Copy Share Image
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
