Gandhi Ahimsa Quotes

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

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

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

Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. — 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

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

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence). — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ahimsa necessarily includes truth and fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed. — Mahatma Gandhi

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect. — 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

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

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

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God. — Mahatma Gandhi

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. — 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

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

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

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

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

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them. — 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 is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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