Mahatma Gandhi Cow Quotes (Best Cow Quotes)

Read here Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts & motivational quotes on Cow. From these Best Cow Quotes said by Gandhiji, you can learn the importance of cow.

Mahatma Gandhi is said to have taught that the protection of cows is a ‘’central facet of Hinduism’’. In his teachings Gandhi equated the protection of cows to the protection of the weak and helpless, describing cows as the ‘’personification of innocence’’. Gandhi’s teachings condemn the mistreatment of cows to such an extent that he states that ‘’no one who does not believe in cow-protection can possibly be a Hindu’’.

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Mahatma Gandhi Cow Quotes

The cow to me is a sermon on pity.

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl widow.


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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection.

― Mahatma Gandhi

Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.

― Mahatma Gandhi

The only way Hindus can convert the whole world to cow protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow protection and all it means.

― Mahatma Gandhi

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views, the conviction that cow- killing is a sin.

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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.

― Mahatma Gandhi

If I were overfull of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not to take my brother’s.

― Mahatma Gandhi

Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin.

― Mahatma Gandhi

Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law.

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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It is no part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows.

― Mahatma Gandhi

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

― Mahatma Gandhi

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