Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life. I practice a humility that presupposes there's a power greater than myself. And I always believe, don't inflict harm where it's not necessary.

Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others.

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away

You just always do what will make the other fellow feel comfortable, at ease, and then everything else will be all right.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.

'As I am, so are these. As are these, so am I.' Drawing the parallel to yourself, neither kill nor get others to kill.

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.

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

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?

What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Until we have created a romance of peace that would equal that of war, violence will not disappear from people's lives.