Top 95 Ahimsa Quotes & Sayings

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

I never imagined I would wear a silk sari as I practice Ahimsa.

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

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

No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.

Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

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.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

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.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.

What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?

Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.

Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way.

Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.

Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.

Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.

Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face.

True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love.

Many times people tried to convince me about Ahimsa silk, but when I followed the chain of production it always ended with genetically modified silk moths that could not fly. There was nothing Ahimsa about it.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.

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

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa.

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

Ereena is a commendable mission for both women empowerment and environmentally sustainable Ahimsa silk.

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.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.

Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out.