My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If blood be shed, let it be our own. Let us cultivate the calm courage to die without killing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying… — 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
