Charkha is an instrument of service. T-2-253
The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India’s freedom. T-6-32
The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence. T-5-265
The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India’s myriads. T-2-215
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based. MM-405
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity. T-2-277
The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity. MM-408
Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you. T-2-263
The charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience. XXV-587
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail. T-5-24
The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God. T-5-242
I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life. MM-405
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. T-2-63
I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel. MM-406
I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India. XXVI-298
If Gandhism means
simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be
destroyed.
T-5-242
I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends. XXV-523
In my dream, in my sleep, while eating, I think of the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel is my sword. To me it is the symbol of India’s liberty. XXV-351
My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between spinning wheel and books. T-2-108
For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation’s wealth. T-3-5
The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. XXVI-292
The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work. XXVI-49
The spinning wheel is a symbol of nonviolence for me. T-5-290
He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does. TIG-136
I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel. T-2-275
The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation. T-3-5
The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water. T-2-38
The spinning wheel is the thing which all must turn in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time. T-2-63
The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor. XXV-476
The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life. XXV-74
The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour. XXV-56
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel. T-2-246
If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel. T-2-377
Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India’s happiness and prosperity. T-2-38
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. XXV-587
The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel. T-3-284
The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel. XXV-561
The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel. T-2-247
The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar. XXVI-378-9
The restoration of spinning to its central place in India’s peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status. T-5-206
Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience. XXVI-246
There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it. T-5-264
The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul. MM-405
Every window I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend. T-2-38
It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity. T-2-63
When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household. T-3-300
Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers. MM-409
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise. XXV-317
My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these. XXV-564
A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour. T-2-63
Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel. T-2-63
India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel. T-2-38
Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence. T-5-277
Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means. XXVI-538
Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty. XXVI-292
The cause of the
spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere
hero-worship.
T-2-229
If the poet* span for half and hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness. T-2-215
(The reference here is to poet Rabindranath Tagore).
If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sakes. T-3-300
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner. T-7-381