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Tulsa Jain Sangh Pratishtha Mahotsav 2004
Compassionate Quotes
Non-violence and kindness to living beings is kindness to oneself. For thereby one's own self is saved from various kinds of sins and resultant sufferings and is able to secure his own welfare.
--Mahavira The time will come when men will look on the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.
--Leonardo da Vinci Until we extend our circle of compassion to include every living creature we cannot enjoy 'World PEACE'.
--Albert Schweitzer 'Thou shalt not kill' does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings and this commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai.
--Leo Tolstoy We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings.
--Mahatma Gandhi The highest religion is to rise to universal brother hood; and to consider all creatures your equals.
--Guru Nanak Let us pray that our food should not be colored with animal blood and human suffering.
--Chitrabhanuji Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.
--Jesus Christ Animals cannot speak, but can you and I not speak for them and represent them? Let us all feel their silent cry of agony and let us all help that cry to be heard in the world.
--Rukmini Devi Arundale Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.
--Rev. A. D. Beldon Anything that can feel pain should not be put to pain.
--R. M. Dolgin Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtues with which man is endowed.
--Charles Robert Darwin
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