Animal Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live…

— Mahatma Gandhi

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Strictly speaking, no activity and no industry is possible without a certain amount of violence, no matter how little. Even the very…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and…

— Mahatma Gandhi

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated

— Mahatma Gandhi

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to…

— Mahatma Gandhi

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal…

— Mahatma Gandhi

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

— Mahatma Gandhi