Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

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

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

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

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

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.

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.

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

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

The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.

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

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

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.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

It's your flag and my flag.

Where new states have come into being, they have invariably swaddled themselves in sacred symbols and shibboleths forged in more dedicated struggles, beginning with an often random tricolor and a national anthem.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

… tribes with flags

Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.