If you think that it would be impossible to improve upon the Ten Commandments as a statement of morality, you really owe it to yourself to read some other scriptures. Once again, we need look...

Kill not, cause no pain. Nonviolence is the greatest religion.

Can you hold a red-hot iron rod in your hand merely because some one wants you to do so? Then, will it be right on your part to ask others to do the same thing...

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self.

A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn’t realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him...

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away.

Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.