Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

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

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

Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

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

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

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.

When there is enough food to feed everyone, why are 870 million people going hungry? We must learn to share what we have; no one race or nation has a greater right to life than another.

The old model for India was to be self-sufficient. It was the ideal India became independent with, that you spin your own thread, make your own clothes.

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

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.

I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.

Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.

Our country offers such great opportunities for us all. Unfortunately, too many hard-working citizens go day to day without enough food to eat.

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

A hungry mind is not free, and I felt if we were really going to make a difference and fight poverty we should at least start with the ability to feed ourselves, and the millions of Africans who don't have it.

The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj.

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.

The rich know not how hard it is to be of needful rest and needful food debarred.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.