Quotes & Sayings About Animals By Mahatma Gandhi

As much as possible, it is useful to think of all other beings as being just like me. Every living being strives for happiness. Every being wants to avoid all forms of suffering. They are not just objects or things to be used for our benefit. You know, Mahatma Gandhi once said: 'The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. — David Michie

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals. - MAHATMA GANDHI — Jay Kopelman

The measure of a society can be how well its people treat its animals — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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

You can judge a society by the way it treats it's animals — Mahatma Gandhi

Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live. — Mahatma Gandhi