Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Dogs

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

• 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”

• To kill these (rabid) dogs, in my opinion, amount to himsa, but I believe it to be inevitable if we are to escape much greater himsa.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Believe, Violence

• Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Justice, Poet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words”

• The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Dog, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1942). “Quit India”

• Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Dog, Secret

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.45, A&C Black

• Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Men, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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