Mahatma Gandhi Ahimsa Quotations

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty.

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

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

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

The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.

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

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

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

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

Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science.

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.

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

The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.

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

Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

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

Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing.

The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible.

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

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

Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect.

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

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

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

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

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

The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force.

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.