--- title: "23 Poor Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi" description: "23 Poor quotes by Mahatma Gandhi. Plus more from Mahatma Gandhi and more Poor sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_economic_for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual-6_681140.jpg" --- > [For the poor, the economic is spiritual.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_economic_for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual-6_681140.jpg) > [The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-swaraj-of-my-dream-is-the-poor-man-s-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97e/mahatma-gandhi-23_dream_the-swaraj-of-my-dream-is-the-poor-man-s_3205753.jpg) > [Man can only describe God in his own poor language.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-can-only-describe-god-in-his-own-poor-language/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b10/mahatma-gandhi-23_god_man-can-only-describe-god-in-his-own-poo_610999.jpg) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/mahatma-gandhi-23_heart_i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i_2835.jpg) > [Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/men-are-good-but-they-are-poor-victims-making-themselves-miserable/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a26/mahatma-gandhi-23_belief_men-are-good-but-they-are-poor-victims-m_3165619.jpg) > [Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/hand-spinning-is-designed-to-put-millions-of-rupees-in-the-hands-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6c/mahatma-gandhi-23_hands_hand-spinning-is-designed-to-put-million_2013650.jpg) > [Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/khaddar-delivers-the-poor-from-the-bonds-of-the-rich-and-creates-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/039/mahatma-gandhi-23_class_khaddar-delivers-the-poor-from-the-bonds_2071392.jpg) > [He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/he-who-spins-before-the-poor-inviting-them-to-do-likewise-serves-god/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/419/mahatma-gandhi-23_doe_he-who-spins-before-the-poor-inviting-th_2888460.jpg) > [The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-charkha-in-the-hands-of-a-poor-widow-brings-a-paltry-price-to-her/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4db/mahatma-gandhi-23_freedom_the-charkha-in-the-hands-of-a-poor-widow_132307.jpg) > [The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-rich-cannot-accumulate-wealth-without-the-co-operation-of-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/baa/mahatma-gandhi-23_labour_the-rich-cannot-accumulate-wealth-withou_1322525.jpg) > [It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-poor-faith-that-needs-fair-weather-for-standing-firm-that-alone/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/mahatma-gandhi-23_fair-weather_it-is-poor-faith-that-needs-fair-weather_1060859.jpg) > [I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-am-a-poor-mendicant-my-earthly-possessions-consist-of-six-spinning/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ec/mahatma-gandhi-23_atheism_i-am-a-poor-mendicant-my-earthly-possess_1374354.jpg) > [No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-sacrifice-is-worth-the-name-unless-it-is-a-joy-sacrifice-and-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c12/mahatma-gandhi-23_faces_no-sacrifice-is-worth-the-name-unless-it_105180.jpg) > [Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/of-all-the-myriads-of-god-daridranarayana-is-the-most-sacred-inasmuch/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4eb/mahatma-gandhi-23_distinguished_of-all-the-myriads-of-god-daridranarayan_548397.jpg) > [I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-am-but-a-poor-struggling-soul-yearning-to-be-wholly-good-wholly/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f72/mahatma-gandhi-23_being-true_i-am-but-a-poor-struggling-soul-yearning_945478.jpg) > [Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/exploitation-of-the-poor-can-be-extinguished-not-by-effecting-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ccd/mahatma-gandhi-23_destruction_exploitation-of-the-poor-can-be-extingui_1703885.jpg) > [I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-cannot-imagine-anything-nobler-or-more-national-than-that-for-say/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fce/mahatma-gandhi-23_hours_i-cannot-imagine-anything-nobler-or-more_2327854.jpg) > [We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/we-notice-that-the-mind-is-a-restless-bird-the-more-it-gets-the-more/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/mahatma-gandhi-23_ancestor_we-notice-that-the-mind-is-a-restless-bi_1881645.jpg) > [It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-is-better-to-allow-our-lives-to-speak-for-us-than-our-words-god/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9a/mahatma-gandhi-23_bears_it-is-better-to-allow-our-lives-to-speak_1634699.jpg) > [Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/unless-all-the-discoveries-that-you-make-have-the-welfare-of-the-poor/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/505/mahatma-gandhi-23_discovery_unless-all-the-discoveries-that-you-make_2985672.jpg) > [My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-hinduism-must-be-a-very-poor-thing-if-it-cannot-flourish-even/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a73/mahatma-gandhi-23_adverse_my-hinduism-must-be-a-very-poor-thing-if_2976661.jpg) > [There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/there-is-a-world-wide-conflict-between-capital-and-labour-and-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7c8/mahatma-gandhi-23_conflict_there-is-a-world-wide-conflict-between-c_1855928.jpg) > [“Service of the poor has been my heart’s desire, and it has always thrown me amongst the poor and enabled me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/service-of-the-poor-has-been-my-heart-s-desire-and-it-has-always/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e0/mahatma-gandhi-23_poor_service-of-the-poor-has-been-my-heart-s_2266655.jpg) ## Other authors on Poor ## More by Mahatma Gandhi > [I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-to-live-at-the-cost-of-the-life-even-of-a-snake-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/devotion-required-by-the-gita-is-no-soft-hearted-effusiveness/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/no-nation-being-under-another-nation-can-accept-gifts-and-kick-at-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/so-long-as-we-fear-the-outside-world-we-must-cease-to-think-of-swaraj/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/religions-are-not-for-separating-men-from-one-another-they-are-meant/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-hold-flesh-food-to-be-unsuited-to-our-species-we-err-in-copying-the/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/it-was-only-in-south-africa-that-i-got-over-this-shyness-though-i/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [“Where there is life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/where-there-is-life/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/if-it-was-wrong-to-seek-god-in-a-stone-how-was-it-right-to-seek-him/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-spirit-of-democracy-cannot-be-established-in-the-midst-of/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/champions-are-made-from-something-they-have-deep-inside-of-them-a/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/my-motto-is-unite-now-today-if-you-can-fight-if-you-must-but-in-every/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-have-no-disciples-being-myself-an-aspirant-after-discipleship-and/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) > [Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-becomes-not-the-lord-and-master-of-all-creation-but-he-is-its/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poor/mahatma-gandhi/#itemlist", "name": "23 Poor Quotes By Mahatma Gandhi", "numberOfItems": 23, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "For the poor, the economic is spiritual.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_economic_for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual-6_681140.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_economic_for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual-6_681140.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cd/mahatma-gandhi-23_economic_for-the-poor-the-economic-is-spiritual-6_681140.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For the poor, the economic is spiritual.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-swaraj-of-my-dream-is-the-poor-man-s-swaraj/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97e/mahatma-gandhi-23_dream_the-swaraj-of-my-dream-is-the-poor-man-s_3205753.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97e/mahatma-gandhi-23_dream_the-swaraj-of-my-dream-is-the-poor-man-s_3205753.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97e/mahatma-gandhi-23_dream_the-swaraj-of-my-dream-is-the-poor-man-s_3205753.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Man can only describe God in his own poor language.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/man-can-only-describe-god-in-his-own-poor-language/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b10/mahatma-gandhi-23_god_man-can-only-describe-god-in-his-own-poo_610999.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b10/mahatma-gandhi-23_god_man-can-only-describe-god-in-his-own-poo_610999.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b10/mahatma-gandhi-23_god_man-can-only-describe-god-in-his-own-poo_610999.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Man can only describe God in his own poor language.” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mahatma Gandhi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i-want-is-to-remove-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/mahatma-gandhi-23_heart_i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i_2835.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/mahatma-gandhi-23_heart_i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i_2835.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/677/mahatma-gandhi-23_heart_i-do-not-want-a-kingdom-or-heaven-what-i_2835.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the…” — Mahatma Gandhi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Men are good. 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