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Animal Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

47 Animal quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi points out that eating meat is not fit for humans and that a nation's greatness can be measured by how it treats animals. He says that while living involves some violence, the spirit should aim for non‑violence toward all creatures. His words link moral choices to the way we handle even living beings.

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The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

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

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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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

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Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

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The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.