Gandhi Spinning Quotes

#1. I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#2. A congeries of motives prevents us from blowing up our spinning mills and reviving the distaff. Gandhi had a try at this sort of revolution: he was as simple-minded as a child trying to empty the sea on to the sand with the aid of a tea-cup.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.

Mahatma Gandhi

#26. I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#31. There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#32. If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.

Mahatma Gandhi

#33. I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

Mahatma Gandhi

#34. The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

Mahatma Gandhi

#35. 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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#40. The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

Mahatma Gandhi

#42. A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Mahatma Gandhi