Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing.