Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
– Mahavira
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- Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect. – Lundy Bancroft
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. – Mahavira
- Fake people will insult you infront of the whole world but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private. – Shizra
- When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them. – Donna Lynn Hope
- To insult someone we call him ‘bestial’. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‘human’ might be the greater insult. – Isaac Asimov
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse. – Criss Jami
- Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not -œcure- partner abuse. – Lundy Bancroft
- In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. – Mahavira
- Every single creature on earth manages to survive one way or another, but not every creature truly lives. – Abhijit Naskar
- Marriages are made in heaven. When Allah made a creature, He also made the creature’s mate – Farahad Zama
- There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures. – Sebastian Barry
- Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill. – Sylvia Plath
- One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it. – Margaret Mead
- They torture us but could not kill our spirit. We have greater divine power, guiding and protecting us. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a -œwhat if- life. – Steve Maraboli
- The day here is a something without value, a mere torment suffered by living creatures as they await the night. Night is deliverance. – Tayeb Salih
- It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them. – William Makepeace Thackeray
- To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man. – Billy Graham
- Is there such depravity in man as that he should injure another without benefit to himself? – Samuel Johnson
- Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. – Mineko Iwasaki
- It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is. – Alan Ryan
- If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared. – Michael Scott
- Right, he can kill the dead. What happens when he realizes we’re training him to kill the living? – Robert Kirkman
- On average, since the urge to kill myself isn’t so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. – Tao Lin
- … You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation. – Brian Clevinger
- But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress. – NK Jemisin
- Those with unearned privileges often spin things as ‘political correctness’ to further silence those they wish to oppress. – DaShanne Stokes
- Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall. – Jim George
- How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character! – Israelmore Ayivor
- Do well to impress; don’t depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise! – Israelmore Ayivor
- I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. – Charlotte Bront
- Bigots often like to say they’re the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the ‘pity the privileged’ routine. – DaShanne Stokes
- Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Don’t oppress, don’t accept to be oppressed and you will live free. – Auliq Ice
- We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us. – Heather Marsh
- -¦majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows. – Robert A Heinlein
- …the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former. – Theodore Roosevelt
- The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. – John Calvin