Citations:nonkilling

English citations of nonkilling

1896, Swami Vivekananda, Oxford English Dictionary:
yama, n.2: Yoga Philos. ii. 17 Râja Yoga is divided into eight steps. The first is Yama—non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving of any gifts.
1944, Louise Saxe Eby, The quest for moral law, page 46:
One element which is valid without reference to this Indian triad of premises is the emphasis upon ahimsa, nonkilling and noninjury of any living creature
1963, Howard Thurman, Disciplines of the Spirit, page 103:
Nonviolence and nonkilling mean, therefore, essentially the same
1999, Suwanna Satha-Anand, “Looking to Buddhism to Turn Back Prostitution in Thailand”, in Joanne R. Bauer, Daniel A. Bell, editors, The East Asian challenge for human rights, page 194:
In the latter's opinion, the first precept of nonkilling is but another expression of the right to life.
2002, John F. Kavanaugh, Who count as persons?, page 123:
The principle of nonkilling is not a recommendation of passivity
2002, Glenn D. Paige, Nonkilling Global Political Science, page 82:
The spirit and reality of nonkilling is the basic law of human life
2004, Norman Fischer, Taking Our Places: The Buddhist Path to Truly Growing Up, page 155:
Speaking about this precept of nonkilling, he told us about all the killing that he had done that very day as he drove his mower through a thick field of

- 2008, Mairead Maguire, Global Nonkilling Leadership First Forum Proceedings, page 61:
  A world of love, compassion, forgiveness and nonkilling

1991, Kent Greenawalt, Religious Convictions and Political Choice, page 105:
... then its death is a moral wrong even if the result of "nonkillings" will be a marked decrease in the population of that part of the animal kingdom.
1994, Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the mind: language and human nature, page 200:
But actions in the world don't come neatly dividing into killings and nonkillings: the gray area of the concept shades smoothly
2008, Heinz Duthel, Guilty as Charged! A Case for the International Criminal Court, page 20:
This also includes nonkillings that in the end eliminate the group, such as preventing births or forcibly transferring children out of the group