Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

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

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

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

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

It is better to be killed than to kill.

I am prepared to die but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

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

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

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.

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.

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

Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced.

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

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

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.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

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

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

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

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