Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Labour
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Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
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Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
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The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.
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The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour.
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Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
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There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.
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The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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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.
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Labour is priceless, not gold.
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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.
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A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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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.
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A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.
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Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?
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No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.
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A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.
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To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.
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Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
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Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
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Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.
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Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family.
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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.
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All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
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Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
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Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
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What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
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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.
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Mahatma Gandhi
- Born: October 2, 1869
- Died: January 30, 1948
- Occupation: Civil rights leader
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