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.
If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt.
Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.
Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour.
Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour.
Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.
Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants.
The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society.
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.
What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.
Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices.
A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.
Life is greater than all art.
Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory.
A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings.
What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.
The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother’s.
My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.