Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“One should eat not in order to please the palate, but just to keep the body going.” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Many could forgo heavy meals, a full wardrobe, a fine house, etcetera. It is the ego they cannot forgo. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I eat to live, to serve, and also, if it so happens, to enjoy, but I do not eat for the sake… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Why should I, who have no need to work for food, spin? ' may be the question asked. Because I am eating… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wherever flaxseeds become a regular food item among the people, there will be better health. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share
