Ahimsa Quotes

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

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

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa.

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?