Jain Center Minnesota MN 2007 07 Pratishtha

Author(s): Jain Center Minnesota USA
Publisher: USA Jain Center Minnesota

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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 sin and resultant sufferings and is able to secure one's own welfare.
Mahavir
Until we extend our circle of compassion to include every living creature we cannot enjoy "World Peace".
Albert Schweitzer
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
Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our responsibilities to help them in their ascent, and not to retard their development by cruel exploitation of their helplessness.
Lord Dowling
The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
Dr. Anne Beasant
Sympathy for the lowest animals is one of the noblest virtue with which man is endowed.
Charles Robert Darwin
Cruelty is the obvious cancer of modern civilization.
Rev. A. D. Beldon
I think that sacrifices of animals in the name of religion are barbarous and they degrade the name of religion.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kindness multiplies fast and brings tremendous dividends.
Hope Sawyer Buyukmihei
Anything that can feel pain should not be put to pain.
R. M. Dolgin
No nation is truly free until animal, man's younger brother, is free and happy.
T. L. Vaswani
If we wish for mercy ourselves, we must show mercy to all dumb animals.
Joyce Lambert
Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
Vallabha Acharya
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