--- title: "25 Cows Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "25 Cows quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Cows sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b80/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_cow-preservation-is-an-article-of-faith_2324377.jpg" --- > [Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-preservation-is-an-article-of-faith-in-hinduism/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b80/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_cow-preservation-is-an-article-of-faith_2324377.jpg) > [Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-slaughter-can-never-be-stopped-by-law/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b96/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_cow-slaughter-can-never-be-stopped-by-la_1051757.jpg) > [Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/mother-cow-is-as-useful-dead-as-when-she-is-alive/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d94/mahatma-gandhi-23_alive_mother-cow-is-as-useful-dead-as-when-she_571538.jpg) > [The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-cow-is-the-purest-type-of-sub-human-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b66/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_the-cow-is-the-purest-type-of-sub-human_2805506.jpg) > [The cow to me is a sermon on pity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-cow-to-me-is-a-sermon-on-pity/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd5/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_the-cow-to-me-is-a-sermon-on-pity-260744_2607446.jpg) > [The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-central-fact-of-hinduism-is-cow-protection/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eea/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_the-central-fact-of-hinduism-is-cow-prot_2129462.jpg) > [Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/mother-cow-expects-from-us-nothing-but-grass-and-grain/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7fa/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_mother-cow-expects-from-us-nothing-but-g_779341.jpg) > [The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-cow-can-be-saved-only-if-buffalo-breeding-is-given-up/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/567/mahatma-gandhi-23_breeding_the-cow-can-be-saved-only-if-buffalo-bre_3145124.jpg) > [We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/we-cry-for-cow-protection-in-the-name-of-religion-but-we-refuse/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_we-cry-for-cow-protection-in-the-name-of_1587348.jpg) > [If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-i-were-over-full-of-pity-for-the-cow-i-should-sacrifice-my-life-to/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db4/mahatma-gandhi-23_brother_if-i-were-over-full-of-pity-for-the-cow_751763.jpg) > [Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-slaughter-and-man-slaughter-are-in-my-opinion-two-sides-of-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38b/mahatma-gandhi-23_coins_cow-slaughter-and-man-slaughter-are-in-m_1905118.jpg) > [Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-through-the-cow-is-enjoined-to-realize-his-identity-with-all-that/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/479/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_man-through-the-cow-is-enjoined-to-reali_514926.jpg) > [Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-protection-means-protection-of-the-weak-the-helpless-the-dumb-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c0/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_cow-protection-means-protection-of-the-w_2875114.jpg) > [Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/every-species-human-and-subhuman-has-some-distinguishing-mark-so-that/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee4/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_every-species-human-and-subhuman-has-som_2546026.jpg) > [Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/mother-cow-is-in-many-ways-better-than-the-mother-who-gave-us-birth/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c12/mahatma-gandhi-23_birth_mother-cow-is-in-many-ways-better-than-t_2050706.jpg) > [Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-protection-to-me-is-one-of-the-most-wonderful-phenomena-in-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ef/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_cow-protection-to-me-is-one-of-the-most_2630489.jpg) > [When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/when-i-see-a-cow-it-is-not-an-animal-to-eat-it-is-a-poem-of-pity-for/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a5c/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_when-i-see-a-cow-it-is-not-an-animal-to_839172.jpg) > [My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-religion-teaches-me-that-i-should-by-my-personal-conduct-instill/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28c/mahatma-gandhi-23_conviction_my-religion-teaches-me-that-i-should-by_719945.jpg) > [Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-protection-is-the-gift-of-hinduism-to-the-world/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad0/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_cow-protection-is-the-gift-of-hinduism-t_1669457.jpg) > [Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-protection-can-only-be-secured-by-cultivating-universal/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/123/mahatma-gandhi-23_ahimsa_cow-protection-can-only-be-secured-by-cu_1877751.jpg) > [Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/nowhere-in-the-world-would-you-find-such-skeletons-of-cows-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ca5/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_nowhere-in-the-world-would-you-find-such_2737648.jpg) > [Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/cow-protection-to-me-is-infinitely-more-than-mere-protection-of-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50a/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_cow-protection-to-me-is-infinitely-more_2171097.jpg) > [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-only-way-hinduism-can-convert-the-whole-world-to-cow-protection/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa0/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_the-only-way-hinduism-can-convert-the-wh_2893684.jpg) > [By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/by-ahimsa-we-will-be-able-to-save-the-cow-and-also-win-the-friendship/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75c/mahatma-gandhi-23_able_by-ahimsa-we-will-be-able-to-save-the-co_1148659.jpg) > [It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-not-part-of-religion-to-breed-buffaloes-or-for-that-matter-cows/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/mahatma-gandhi-23_cows_it-is-not-part-of-religion-to-breed-buff_2908655.jpg) ## Other authors on Cows ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cows/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "25 Cows Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 25, 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