Mahatma Gandhi Snake Quotations

Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.