Ahimsa Quotes
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.
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.
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
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.
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
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.
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.
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
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.
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.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
Oh baby, love and treasure yourself ❤ As in this life journey all you have is yourself.
