A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible.

God comes to the hungry in the form of food.