The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa.
The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.
Ahimsa is a science. The word ‘failure’ has no place in the vocabulary of science.
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.
Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience.
My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.
What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
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.
My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.
When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.
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.
Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them.
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been.
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.