Buddha Quotes

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away

Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

We cannot separate ourselves from those whom we call the 'lower' animals. They are lower in the scale of evolution, but they, like us, are members of the One Family. We must not take away the life of any creature. Indeed, we must never take away that which we cannot give. And as we cannot restore a dead creature to life, we have no right to take away its' life.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

Comparing oneself to others in such terms as "Just as I am so are they, just as they are so am I," he should neither kill nor cause others to kill.

For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why should I hurt thee? This world is surely wide enough to hold both thee and me.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.