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The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy. -- Swami Vivekananda
Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept. -- Swami Vivekananda
Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- 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 by love. Ahimsa is true sacrifice. Ahimsa is forgiveness. Ahimsa is Sakti (power). Ahimsa is true strength. -- Sivananda
Ahimsa is the strongest force known. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no virtue higher than non-injury. -- Swami Vivekananda
Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that are inferior to you in every way. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation. -- Swami Vivekananda
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All things are our relatives; what we do to everything, we do to ourselves. All is really One. -- Black Elk
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. -- Mahatma Gandhi
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures. -- Vallabha Acharya
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
If we want to eliminate bad qualities like hatred, envy, pride and ostentation, we have to employ Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema and Ahimsa as the cleaning instruments. -- Sathya Sai Baba
These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position. -- Swami Vivekananda
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Virchand Gandhi
The Buddhist tenet, "Non-killing is supreme virtue", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India. -- Swami Vivekananda
Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very process of living is impossible without a certain amount of violence. What we have to do is to minimize it to the greatest extent possible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: "Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin." -- Swami Vivekananda
To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty. -- Swami Vivekananda
The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open. -- Toni Packer
Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him. -- Swami Vivekananda
Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence). -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission. -- Mahatma Gandhi
For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail. -- Mahatma Gandhi
True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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). -- Sathya Sai Baba
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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