Ahimsa Quotations

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

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

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

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

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

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

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

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

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

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

Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

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

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

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

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

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

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

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

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

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

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

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

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.

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

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.