Quotes & Sayings About Poverty By Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Mahatma Gandhi

When we over consume the Earth's resources, we create an economic imbalance in societies and in the world. Affluent people and affluent societies can afford to buy everything in large quantities. They have an abundance of wealth and think they have the license to waste. They use a great deal and leave others with very little. It is this imbalance between rich and poor that gives rise to crime, violence, prejudice, and other negative attitudes.

When some people cannot get what they need through honest hard work, and see others wasting what is so precious, they feel justified in taking it by force. The Earth can only produce enough for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed. Our greed and wasteful habits perpetuate poverty, which is violence against humanity. — Arun Gandhi

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

Poqerty is the worst form of violence — Mahatma Gandhi

We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters? — Indira Gandhi

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance. — Indira Gandhi

If farmers become weak the country loses self-reliance but if they are strong, freedom also becomes strong. If we do not maintain our progress in agriculture, poverty cannot be eliminated from India.But our biggest poverty alleviation programme is to improve the living standard of our farmers. The thrust of our poverty alleviation programmes is on the uplift of the farmers. — Rajiv Gandhi

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

Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people. — Rajiv Gandhi

Poverty is the worst form of violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

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

Poverty is a state of mind. — Rahul Gandhi

There are certain constant factors to be found in true success whether it be the success of an Andrew Carnegie or of a Mahatma Gandhi. These are the essential factors, independent of wealth or achievement, poverty or asceticism. These are the dynamic factors in success, the very bone and sinew of it. The first constant factor is purpose. One must know that in whatever he does he is moving forward toward a goal. Aimlessness is the worst enemy of success. One can hardly feel successful in a bog. But as long as one has purpose he feels that his energies and creative thought are taking him somewhere, and there is satisfaction in the journey just as there is despair whenever we feel, as we often insightfully put it, that we are getting nowhere. — Og Mandino

To a man with an empty stomach food is God — Mahatma Gandhi

Poverty is the greatest violence. — Mahatma Gandhi

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. — Mahatma Gandhi