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
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it. — 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
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
“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
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
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
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
The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
H. G. Wells was not the only one to mention Churchill and Hitler in the same breath: "Churchill and Hitler are striving… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and… — 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
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
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
