Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty

We have been discovering that vast numbers of our farming population live in a poverty more abject than that of many of the farmers of Europe, whom we are wont to call peasants

If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.

Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

The folly of men not their hard heartedness was the great cause of the world s poverty.

I've been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.

There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, I’ve seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they don’t care. We can’t afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.

A world of little cares is continually arising, which busy or affluent life knows nothing of, to open the first door to distress. Hunger is not among the postponable wants; and a day, even a few hours, in such a condition is often the crisis of a life of ruin.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Poverty makes it very difficult in an already competitive world for kids to get on a straight track where they can actually love learning.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world.

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.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

We need to ensure the poorest in the planet - who will be hardest hit by the financial crisis - are not forgotten.

When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.