Khadi Quotes

“If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.”

“The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.”

“The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.”

“Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.”

“Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles.”

“The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.”

“The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.”

“I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.”

“Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj.”

“Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi.”

“The khadi spirit means also an infinite patience.”

“Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.”

“The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth.”

“Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.”