Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.

Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life.

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

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'.

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

No one would die of starvation in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place …. Its military expenditure would not be heavy. Its army would not subjugate its own people or other lands. Its best-paid officials would not earn a great deal more than its lowest-paid servants. And finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult

I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: "Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.

I have a deep connection with Mahatma Gandhi, partly because my mother was a very, very staunch Gandhian and brought us up that way. When I was six years old, and all the girls were getting nylon dresses, I was very keen to get a nylon frock for my birthday. My mother said, “I can get it for you, but would you rather—through how you live and what you wear and what you eat—ensure that food goes into the hands of the weaver or ensure that profits go into the bank of an industrialist?” That became such a checkstone for everything in life.

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

The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.

We don't think that we're begging for anything. We think we're demanding what is ours by right. And all we're asking for is an opportunity to do something for ourselves, rather than to sit around as a beggar, begging for jobs and begging for education from - for someone else for the rest of our lives.

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses.

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

Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India.

The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.

We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone.

Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

The poor are our brothers and sisters ... people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.