Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

The real question at issue is the improvement of the social and moral condition of the masses of the population; we wish to elevate in the gradation of society that great class which gains its support by manual labour. The mere interests of the landlords and occupying tenants, important as they are, are subordinate …

Very few of the rich are in the army except as officers. Our mission is to disenthrall just such men, to open up before them a brighter future for themselves and their children. Labor must be dignified in the south, and all must have an equal chance.

Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means.

That which will not be spun, let it not come betweene the spindle and the distaffe.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel.

I believe that dignified work is a value in itself.

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

My parents are weavers. They worked very hard to give us our daily food.

I will stand with the working-class citizens over all else.

I've never felt like a pop star - this is a nine-to-five sort of gig. It comes from working in the factories, that world. You don't forget it.

We need candidates who are deeply rooted in their communities, working-class people who understand the struggles their neighbors face. That is the future of the Democratic Party.

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better.

India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel.

If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle.