Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Labour

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Bread, Revolution

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Calling, Weavers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wealth, Rich, Poor

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.121, A&C Black

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Combination, Magnet, Needed

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Excellence, Intellect

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

• Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Welfare, Should

  Mahadev Haribhai Desai, Gandhi (Mahatma) (1928). “With Gandhiji in Ceylon: a journal of the tour with authorised version of all important speeches”

• This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Daily Tasks, Mad, Wealth

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.115, A&C Black

• Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Exploits, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Message of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Labour is priceless, not gold.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Gold, Priceless, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Army, Elephants, Employers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Political, Use, Disputes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rewards, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Want, Pennies

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.55, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Envy, World, Conflict

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.61, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Suffering, India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

• Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Distinction, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1966). “Socialism of My Conception”

• A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Writing, Men, Tables

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Body, Spinning, Wheels

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mastery, Lost, Term

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Village, Bread

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.63, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should, Despise, Nations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Looks, Look Up, Contempt

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.175, Rajpal & Sons

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Able, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Produce, Worthy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Practice, Body

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