Labour Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is priceless, not gold.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

— Mahatma Gandhi

Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.

— Mahatma Gandhi

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

— Mahatma Gandhi

If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can…

— Mahatma Gandhi

A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even…

— Mahatma Gandhi

It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

— Mahatma Gandhi

This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a…

— Mahatma Gandhi