Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them! — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must widen the circle of our love till it embraces the whole village; the village in its turn must take into… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My idea of village SWARAJ is that is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The villagers want bread-not butter-and disciplined work, some work that will supplement their agricultural avocations which do not go on for all… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
