Mahatma Gandhi Poverty Quotations

Poverty is the greatest violence.

A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

To a man with an empty stomach food is God

There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

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

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

Poverty is the worst form of violence.