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.
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.
A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh.
I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed.
Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
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.
In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.
The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
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.
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.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher’s knife.
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
The Gita is not for those who have no faith.