Buddhist Violence Quotes

#1. All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

Gautama Buddha

#2. Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind." ,

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

#3. In Buddhist teaching, ignorance is considered the fundamental cause of violence - ignorance ... about the separation of self and other ... about the consequences of our actions.

Sharon Salzberg

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

Gautama Buddha

#5. Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another.

Dalai Lama

#6. Firstly, as a Buddhist monk, I hold that violence is not good. Secondly, I am a firm believer in the Gandian ethic of passive resistance. And thirdly, in reality, violence is not our strength.

Dalai Lama