To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.
If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.
The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
