Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

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

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

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

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

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

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

Reject hatred without hating.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

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

It is better to be killed than to kill.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

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

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.

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

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

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.