Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Animals

• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

• The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Humanity, Earth

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Karma, Animal, Rights

  Mahatma Gandhi, General Press (2014). “My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.361, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Thoughtful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “The Health Guide”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Pet, Towns

• I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Animal, Discovery

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Nature, Animal, Realizing

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Judging, Way

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dirty, Animal, Uncivilized

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Animal, Greatness

• It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Animal, Blessing

• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Cat, Sacrifice, Animal

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• Animal experimentation is the blackest of all the black crimes that a man is at present committing... We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings... I abhor [animal] experimentation with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence... The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Greatness, Men

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Eye, Animal

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Ignorance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Men, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Men, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Men, Doe

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.105, Courier Corporation

• My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, Doctrine, Able

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

• When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Animal, World, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Selfish, Passion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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