--- title: "7 Vegetarianism Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "7 Vegetarianism quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Vegetarianism sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our_7316.jpg" --- > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our_7316.jpg) > [Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/ethically-they-had-arrived-at-the-conclusion-that-man-s-supremacy/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3d/mahatma-gandhi-23_aids_ethically-they-had-arrived-at-the-conclu_1222054.jpg) > [It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-ill-becomes-us-to-invoke-in-our-daily-prayers-the-blessings-of-god/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f09/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_it-ill-becomes-us-to-invoke-in-our-daily_1612264.jpg) > [I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-abhor-vivisection-with-my-whole-soul-all-the-scientific-discoveries/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58a/mahatma-gandhi-23_animal_i-abhor-vivisection-with-my-whole-soul-a_2032459.jpg) > [It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-necessary-to-correct-the-error-that-vegetarianism-has-made-us/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/862/mahatma-gandhi-23_action_it-is-necessary-to-correct-the-error-tha_2102055.jpg) > [I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-feel-that-spiritual-progress-does-demand-at-some-stage-that-we/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/mahatma-gandhi-23_ahimsa_i-do-feel-that-spiritual-progress-does-d_2454298.jpg) > [... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-was-not-born-a-carnivorous-animal-but-born-to-live-on-the-fruits/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bd/mahatma-gandhi-23_advice_man-was-not-born-a-carnivorous-animal-bu_2660827.jpg) ## Other authors on Vegetarianism - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-george-bernard-shaw-68.jpg) George Bernard Shaw 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/george-bernard-shaw/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/rajneesh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-isaac-bashevis-singer-44674.jpg) Isaac Bashevis Singer 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/isaac-bashevis-singer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jonathan-safran-foer-52978.jpg) Jonathan Safran Foer 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/jonathan-safran-foer/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gautama-buddha-37107.jpg) Gautama Buddha 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/gautama-buddha/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-leo-tolstoy-55.jpg) Leo Tolstoy 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/leo-tolstoy/) - [Sebastian Pole 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/sebastian-pole/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-einstein-10494.jpg) Albert Einstein 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/albert-einstein/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plutarch-75801.jpg) Plutarch 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/plutarch/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-schweitzer-10559.jpg) Albert Schweitzer 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/vegetarianism/albert-schweitzer/) ## 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/vegetarianism/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "7 Vegetarianism Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. 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