"Ahimsa must be placed before everything else..." - Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
More by Mahatma Gandhi
“The science of nonviolence can alone lead one to pure democracy.”
“The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.”
“If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.”
More on Ahimsa
“True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.”
“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.”
“The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.”
More on Nonviolence
“Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property.”
“I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.”
“It is the acid test of nonviolence that in a nonviolent conflict there is no rancor left behind, and in the end the enemies are converted into friends.”