All MAHATMA GANDHI Quotes about “Animals”

“The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork.”
“It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet”
“Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the 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.”
“Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.”
“You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals”
“One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.”
“The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.”
“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.”
“There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and 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.”
“Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals.”
“Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.”
“A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.”
“Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.”
“Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory.”
“Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.”
“My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.”

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