Ahimsa Quotes - Page 3

• Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Moksha, Realization

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Planets

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.102, Penguin Books India

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• Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Vocabulary

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.128, Rajpal & Sons

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• Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfless, Mass, Selfless Service

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lying, Way, Nonviolence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works”

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• 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.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pride, Envy, Hatred

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• My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Giving, Healthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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• In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, People, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.19, Rajpal & Sons

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• If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.

  David Zindell

  Way, Impossible, Harm

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• The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Illumination, Realization, Greater

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.127, Orient Paperbacks

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Matter, Mere

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Done, Vivisection

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Duty, Supreme

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

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• If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Long Ago, Knives, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.74, Hackett Publishing

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• Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Irresistible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Atmosphere, Tests, Faces

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

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• Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Realization, Way, Truth Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Highest, Ideals

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.153, Rajpal & Sons

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• Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Destroyed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

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• Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  And Love

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

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• Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Earth, Principles, Wipe

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Collected Works”

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• Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Impossible, Intertwined

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

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• H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving to change the nature of their respective countrymen by forcing and hammering violent methods on them. Man may be suppressed in this manner but he cannot be changed. Ahimsa [non-violence in the Hindu tradition], on the other hand, can change human nature and sooner than men like Churchill and Hitler."

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Hands, May

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• The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Untouchability, Removal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Consideration, Mankind

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.60, Rajpal & Sons

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