Top 98 Quotes About Ahimsa
#1. Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
#2. In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. If you kill me, you kill yourself.
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He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.
David Zindell
#5. Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
Swami Vivekananda
#6. Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. 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
#9. Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
Mahatma Gandhi
#10. Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
Mahatma Gandhi
#12. True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#15. Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#18. 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
#19. Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.
Mahatma Gandhi
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
Mahatma Gandhi
#24. Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
Mahatma Gandhi
#25. Thinking along these lines, I have felt that in trying to enforce in one's life the central teaching of the Gita, one is bound to follow Truth and ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#28. The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all.
Swami Vivekananda
#29. I ask him to join with me in prayer to the God of Truth that He may grant me the boon of Ahimsa in mind, word and deed.
Anonymous
#30. He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#31. No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
Mahatma Gandhi
#34. Ahimsa necessarily includes truth and fearlessness.
Mahatma Gandhi
#35. Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.
Mahatma Gandhi
#36. What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
Mahatma Gandhi
#37. I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.
Mahatma Gandhi
#38. Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
Vallabha Acharya
#40. You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).
Sathya Sai Baba
#41. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#42. The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#43. When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. 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
#46. The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.
Mahatma Gandhi
#47. Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. 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
#53. By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
Mahatma Gandhi
#54. Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. 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
#56. Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#58. 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
#59. Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#60. Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#61. The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#62. The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#63. All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
Mahatma Gandhi
#64. Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
Mahatma Gandhi
#65. Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
Mahatma Gandhi
#67. For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. 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
#69. A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
Mahatma Gandhi
#70. 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
#71. Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
Mahatma Gandhi
#72. 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
#73. The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
Mahatma Gandhi
#75. 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
#76. True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#78. Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.
Mahatma Gandhi
#79. If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments.
Sathya Sai Baba
#80. 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
#81. It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
Mahatma Gandhi
#82. Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
Mahatma Gandhi
#83. Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
Mahatma Gandhi
#85. Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#86. Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
Mahatma Gandhi
#88. 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
#89. My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
Mahatma Gandhi
#90. 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
#91. The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. 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
#93. All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
Gary L. Francione
#94. It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.
Steven Galloway
#95. All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
Black Elk
#96. We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.
Gary L. Francione
#97. The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.
Mahatma Gandhi
#98. Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.
Baha'u'llah
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