Gautama Buddha Quotes About Violence

• 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

  Buddhist, Violence, Causes

• 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

  Buddhist, Hurt, Love Life

• They are not following dharma who resort to violence to achieve their purpose. But those who lead others through nonviolent means, knowing right and wrong, may be called guardians of the dharma. Those who really seek the path to Enlightenment dictate terms to their mind. Then they proceed with strong determination.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Buddhist, Determination

• The true master lives in truth, in goodness and restraint, non-violence, moderation, and purity.

  Gautama Buddha

  Violence, Purity, Moderation

• One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

  Gautama Buddha

  Vegetarianism, Desire, Finding Happiness

• He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

  Gautama Buddha

  Strong, Men, Vegetarianism

• All fear violence, all are afraid of death.

  Gautama Buddha

  Violence, Afraid Of Death

• Seeing the similarity to oneself, one should not use violence or have it used.

  Gautama Buddha

  Violence, Use, Should

• Having abandoned the taking of life, refraining from killing, we dwell without violence, with the knife laid down, scrupulous, full of mercy, trembling with compassion for all sentient beings.

  Gautama Buddha

  Compassion, Knives, Violence

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