Ahimsa Quotes - Page 5

• He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Cutting, Roots

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• So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.

  William Butler Yeats

  Numbers, Long, Giving

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

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• The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  School, Alphabet, Secure

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.116, Penguin Books India

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Winning, Cows, Able

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.125, Orient Paperbacks

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• A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fighting, Bridges, Soldier

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Inferiors

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Doctrine, Culture

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Facts, Theory, Mere

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

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Doctrine, Able

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cows, Protection, Universal

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• Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Errors, Appreciate

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

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• All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Practice, Body

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Toil, Habit

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Stronger, Add, Littles

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Negative Words, Highest, Has Beens

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.442, Rajpal & Sons

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• If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Brave, Knees, Weak

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  War, Fighting, Two Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.85, A&C Black

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• A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Flesh, Deliverance, Praying

  Surendra Varmā, Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Metaphysical Foundation of Mahatma Gandhi's Thought”

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• A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Numbers, Realizing, Strive

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.81, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Would Be, Monkeys, Driving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1970). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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