A Quote by Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.
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Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.
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 by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength.
There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.
War spares not the brave, but the cowardly.
If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.
The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all.
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
Lots of people would be as cowardly as me if they were brave enough.
In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.
A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.
….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?
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