When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione 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
“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
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is… — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world. — 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
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the… — Vincent J. Guihan 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
Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione 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
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One. — Black Elk Copy Share Image
