Mahatma Gandhi Cows Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

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

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.

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