Animal Quote by Nhat Hanh

“Killing is a culturally loaded term, for most of us inextricably tied up with some version of a command that begins, “Thou shalt not.”…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Buddhism regards all living creatures as being endowed with the Buddha nature and the potential to become Buddhas. That's why Buddhism teaches us to…

— Hsuan Hua

Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted…

— Albert Einstein

It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The first precept in Buddhism is "Do not kill." This precept is not merely a legalistic prohibition, but a realization of our affinity with…

— Dhammananda Bhikkhuni

“The Buddhists are right. Guilty men are not sentenced to death, they are sentenced to life.”

— Steve Toltz

Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when…

— William Empson

The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

— Auberon Waugh

The Zen expression “Kill the Buddha!” means to kill any concept of the Buddha as something apart from oneself.

— Peter Matthiessen

“I stand morally opposed to killing: war, executions, killing of the old and demented, the killing of children, unborn and born. . . .…

— Sister Helen Prejean

It is your organized religions that have made it clear through their most sacred scriptures that cruelty and killing is an acceptable response to…

— Neale Donald Walsch