One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
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Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise he will not be able to reach the Truth.
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