When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
We must look deeply. When we buy something or consume something, we may be participating in an act of killing. This precept [non-killing] reflects our determination not to kill, either directly or indirectly, and also to prevent others from killing.
In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.
As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.
I believe in a non-killing future.
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position.
