Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

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

I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.

With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster.

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

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

Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

One should not kill a living being, nor cause it to be killed, nor should one incite another to kill. Do not injure any being, either strong or weak, in the world.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

It is better to be killed than to kill.

Pacifists think that wolves are vegetarians

Read about some squirrelly guy who claims that he just don't believe in fighting, and I wonder how long the rest of us can count on being free.

My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.

Nonviolence requires great patience.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort.

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

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

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

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are.