Mahatma Gandhi Village Quotations

True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.

Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.

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

Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.

I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker.

Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.

A samagra gramsevak must know everybody living in the village and render them such service as he possibly can.

If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.

You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.

The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.

Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.

Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers.

In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

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

The soul of India lives in its villages.

The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it.

The future of India lies in its villages