Non-violence Ahimsa Quotes

#1. My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.

Sivananda

#6. The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

Swami Vivekananda

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

Black Elk

#10. Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. 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

#14. The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. 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

#17. The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

Virchand Gandhi

#18. 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

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

Swami Vivekananda

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

Mahatma Gandhi

#28. Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

Mahatma Gandhi

#29. All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

#30. The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property

Gary L. Francione

#35. 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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#37. Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

#39. Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. 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

#42. The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Mahatma Gandhi