Ahimsa Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

“please tell me your definition of ahimsa.” “The avoidance of harm to any living creature in thought or deed.” “Beautiful”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa is not mere negative non-injury. It is positive, cosmic love. It is the development of a mental attitude in which hatred is replaced…

— Sivananda

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices…

— Swami Vivekananda