$JES 901 Jainism and Spiritual Awakening E9

Author(s): JAINA Education Committee
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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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 suffering and is able to secure one's own freedom.
Lord Mahävir
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 brotherhood; aye to consider all creatures your equals.
Guru Nanak
Let us pray that our food should not be colored with animal blood and human suffering.
Gurudev Chitrabhanuji 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 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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