Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“This ahimsa is the basis of the search for truth. I am realizing every day that the search is vain unless it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share