Gandhi Villages Quotes & Sayings

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

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

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. — Mahatma Gandhi

The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough ... more has to be done. — Sonia Gandhi

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them! — Mahatma Gandhi

The future of India lies in its villages — Mahatma Gandhi

The soul of India lives in its villages. — Mahatma Gandhi

Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars. — Mari Evans

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

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

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

Those who willfully conceal assets overseas undermine the playing field for all taxpayers. — Loretta Lynch

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas, turning everything he touched into pain. — Nenia Campbell

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

Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. — Mahatma Gandhi

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot ... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay. — Tim Bevan

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. — John L. Lewis

And the peasants would beat them so cruelly, sometimes even about the nose and eyes, and he felt so sorry, so sorry for them that he almost cried, and his mother always used to take him away from the window. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city. — Nandan Nilekani

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

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

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

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

You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose. — Tatiana De Rosnay

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have. — Kathleen Hanna

Before the gods that made the gods had seen their sunrise pass, the white horse of the white horse vale was cut out of the grass — G.K. Chesterton