Ahimsa Quotes

Ahimsa Quote of the day

All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

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

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

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

The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.

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

We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.

Veganism is not a "sacrifice." It is a joy.

All sentient beings should have at least one right—the right not to be treated as property

You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.

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

In protecting oneself, others are protected; In protecting others, oneself is protected.

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

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

We cannot justify treating any sentient nonhuman as our property, as a resource, as a thing that we an use and kill for our purposes.

Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.

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.

Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.

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

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

You should not cause hurt even by a word, a look or a gesture. Tolerance, fortitude, equanimity - these help you to be steady in ahimsa (absence of violence).

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

Ahimsa magnifies one's own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one's own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent's eye as a mole.

The universe is not for man alone, but is a theater of evolution for all living beings. Live and let live is its guiding principle. 'Ahimsa Paramo Dharmah' - Non-injury is the highest religion.

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

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way.

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

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

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

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

Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

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

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

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

The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

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

Ahimsa is the strongest force known.

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

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

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

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

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

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

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

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.

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

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.