An Ahimsa Crisis: You Decide: Gandhi’s Quotes On Jainism And Nonviolence

“No religion of the world has explained the principle of non- violence so deeply and systematically, with its applicability in life as in Jainism...Bhagwan Mahaveer is sure to be respected as the greatest authority on non-violence.”

“I say with conviction that the doctrine for which the name of Lord Mahavir is glorified nowadays is the doctrine of Ahimsa. If anyone has practiced to the fullest extent and has propagated most the doctrine of Ahimsa, it was Lord Mahavira.”

On vivisection: “In trying to cure a body of its disease, the medical science has totally disregarded the claims of the sub-human condition. Man, instead of being the lord, and, therefore, the protector of the lower animal kingdom, has become its tyrant. Vivisection is the blackest of all the blackest crimes that man is committing against God and his creation. We should refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of certain beings. It ill becomes us to invoke the blessings of God, the compassionate, if in turn we will not practice compassion towards our fellow creatures.”