Quotes & Sayings About Ahimsa By Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. — Mahatma Gandhi

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the very definition of woman and there is no place for untruth in her heart. If she is true to herself she is no longer Abala
the weak, but she is Sabala
the strong ... — Mahatma Gandhi

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours. — Mahatma Gandhi

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing. — Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization. — Mahatma Gandhi

A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal. — Mahatma Gandhi

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. — Mahatma Gandhi

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler." — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ahimsa is the strongest force known. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible. — Mahatma Gandhi

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

When there is no desire for fruit, there is no temptation for untruth or himsa (violence). Take any instance of untruth or violence, and it will be found that at its back was the desire to attain the cherished end. But it may be freely admitted that the Gita was not written to establish ahimsa. It was an accepted and primary duty even before the Gita age. The Gita had to deliver the message of renunciation of fruit. This is clearly brought out as early as the second chapter. 26. But if the Gita believed in ahimsa or it was included in desirelessness, why did the author take a warlike illustration? When the Gita was written, although people believed in ahimsa, wars were not only not taboo, but nobody observed the contradiction between them and ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it is founded on ahimsa as the basis. It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth. — Mahatma Gandhi

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else. — Mahatma Gandhi

So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. — Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism. — Kevin Martin

My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value. — Mahatma Gandhi