Swami Vivekananda Quotes About Killing

• 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.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Children, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.56, Duncan Baird Publishers

• I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Anger, Soul

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.156, Advaita Ashrama

• There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Anger, Killing, Righteous

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

• The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Evil, Add, World

  Swami Vivekananda (1953). “Complete Works”

• Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mercy, Killing, Purity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2649, Manonmani Publishers

• The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Buddhist, Buddhism, People

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2368, Manonmani Publishers

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