Quotes & Sayings About Villages By Gandhi

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

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

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

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

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