I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India.
If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed.
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation’s wealth.
The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India.
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work.
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me.
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does.
I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel.
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation.
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.
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.
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor.
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life.
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel.
Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India’s happiness and prosperity.
There is no “playing with truth” in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.