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Spinning Wheel Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

29 Spinning Wheel quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

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When Gandhi spoke of the spinning wheel, he wasn’t just talking about cloth—he was threading ideas of self‑reliance and steady effort. These twenty‑nine excerpts let you feel the rhythm of his thoughts, each turn offering a quiet reminder of purposeful motion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

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

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The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at…

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

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When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in…

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

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

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Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me…

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

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

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Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.

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No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation.

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So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj.

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I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

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Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

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“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to…

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“Where there is life.”

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If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the…

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention."

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I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru.

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Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

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