Mahatma Gandhi Pin Quotations

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion.

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.

Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within.

Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible.

No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion.

It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend.

Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God.

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak.

Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life.

One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.

If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake.

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

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

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

Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.

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

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

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

My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these.

If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

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

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

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

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

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

The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel.

Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity.

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

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

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

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

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

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

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

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

The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.

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

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.

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

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

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

I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.

True happiness brings more richness than all the money in the world.

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy.

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Action expresses priorities.

A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

See the good in people and help them.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

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

We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it.

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.

Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence.

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

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself.

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