Traditional Industry Quotes

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

My swadeshi chiefly centers round the handspun khaddar and extends to everything that can be and is produced in India.

The iPod is not a new category. Music is not new. It's not a speculative market. It's a very, very large market. It's been around for thousands of years and will be around as long as humans exist.

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

All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.

There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

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

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

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.

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

I was the middle child of three boys and grew up in the village of Barton Seagrave near Kettering, Northamptonshire. My father, Nigel, followed his father, Keith, into shoe manufacturing.

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

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