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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I. Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

Jesus was the most active resister known to history. His was nonviolence par excellence.