Himsa Quotes

#1. Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. 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

#11. None, while in flesh, can be entirely free from himsa, because one never completely renounces the will to live.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. As individuals express their life, so they are.

Karl Marx

#13. The only good Rook is a working Rook!

Samuel Reshevsky

#14. Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

Gore Vidal

#15. We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

Mattie Stepanek

#16. We fight, we make up, and then we start wars on your behalf.

Shelly Crane

#17. All is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

#18. I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.

Ellie Kemper

#19. If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.

Mason Cooley

#20. "Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

Jason Fried

#21. My woman has a wandering eye;
Yarrow, thyme and thorn.
She eyes the ocean and the sky
While stitching sails, forlorn.
I got a kiss, and then a tear
As she bade me go;
But on the waves, my heart's in fear:
My woman's in the know.

F.T. McKinstry

#22. Own your extraordinariness and Your ordinariness

Danielle LaPorte

#23. Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Lily Tomlin