Mahatma Gandhi Cow Quotations

The truth is that cowardice itself is violence of a subtle type and therefore dangerous and far more difficult to eradicate than the habit of physical violence.

Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow.

Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf.

Cow protection to me is one of the most wonderful phenomena in the human evolution.

Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive.

The cow is the purest type of sub-human life.

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

There can be no friendship between cowards, or cowards and brave men.

For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion.

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.

Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged.

It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

To change one's religion under the threat of force is no conversion but rather cowardice.

Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness.

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.

Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives.

Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it.

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women

When faced with a choice between violence and cowardice, always choose violence

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Cowards can never be moral.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up.

Cowardice is not a sign of belief in God.

By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly.