We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

If you remembered somebody was as real as yourself, how could you kill anybody?

If you are not vegan, please consider going vegan. It’s a matter of nonviolence. Being vegan is your statement that you reject violence to other sentient beings, to yourself, and to the environment, on which...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

The more we practice nonviolence in our words, thoughts and actions the more peaceful will be our inner state.

happy” animal exploitation.

There’s a place between passivity and violence. I’ll meet you there.

Nonviolence is the very essence of the gospels.

Every time you drink a glass of milk or eat a piece of cheese, you harm a mother. Please go vegan.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight… I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, classism, and all other forms of human discrimination, speciesism involves violence...

Nonviolence is power, but it is the right and good use of power.

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing nonviolence.

better” or as morally acceptable. This is not a condemnation of vegetarians who are not vegans; it is, however, a plea to those people to recognize their actions do not conform with a moral principle...

Peace requires something far more difficult than revenge or merely turning the other cheek; it requires empathizing with the fears and unmet needs that provide the impetus for people to attack each other. Being aware...

For peace, let us teach the humanity, tolerance and nonviolence.

Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.

I am not well-versed in theory, but in my view, the cow deserves her life. As does the ram. As does the ladybug. As does the elephant. As do the fish, and the dog and...

humanely” we treat them.

Love or perish.” Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream – the dream...

humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.

Now, with regard to the people who have done things we call “terrorism,” I’m confident they have been expressing their pain in many different ways for thirty years or more. Instead of our empathically receiving...

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. ‘Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah’ – Non-injury is the highest religion.

On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other’s humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation...

Veganism is an act of nonviolent defiance. It is our statement that we reject the notion that animals are things and that we regard sentient nonhumans as moral persons with the fundamental moral right not...

3. War Peace & Action – 3B.02 LOVE & PEACEHatred goes not by hatred,Violence not by violence,Disappear hatred and violence,By love, understanding, non-violence.[241]- 3B

Nonviolence is the way to listen to the inner voice.

humane” exploitation, or single-issue campaigns that seek to portray one form of animal exploitation as morally worse than other forms of animal exploitation (e.g., a campaign that seeks to distinguish fur from wool or leather);...

You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampaging, and skirmishing, and scouring the desert sands, and pacing the margin of the sea, and chasing...

We can’t win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but...

Violence promises us something we all deeply desire, something we genuinely want; violence promises us peace. Violence promises us, that in the end, when the last battle is fought, the last bomb is dropped, and...

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity: between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and...

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

To obtain and possess the kingdoms of the world, with their power and glory, by violent injustice is to worship Satan. To obtain and possess the kingdom, the power, and the glory by nonviolent justice...