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Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
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
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.
— Black Elk
Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.
— Vallabha Acharya
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
— Mahatma Gandhi
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
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
Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).
— Mahatma Gandhi
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.
— 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
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All sentient beings should have at least one right - the right not to be treated as property
— Gary L. Francione
Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
— Mahatma Gandhi
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
— Swami Vivekananda
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
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
— 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
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
— 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
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the strongest force known.
— 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
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa necessarily includes truth and fearlessness.
— Mahatma Gandhi