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

• 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

• Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Thinking, Use, Saving

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

• Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Killing, Machinery, Goods

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

• The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Greed, Saving, Honest

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.177, Grove Press

• What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Two, Gold

• Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Unique, Humans, Human Family

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.84, Penguin Books India

• Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soul, Intellectual, Satisfaction

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

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spinning, Wheels, Dignity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.230, Grove Press

• A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Kings, Names, Use

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.66, Rajpal & Sons

• I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Enemy, Regard, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.215, Rajpal & Sons

• Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Taught, Should

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

• A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pay, Stolen, Workers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

• If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sweat, Earth, Paradise

• 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”

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