Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

Everyone has the right to possess a sufficient amount of the earth's goods for themselves and their family …. Persons in extreme necessity are entitled to take what they need from the riches of others.

It is not enough, for example, to acknowledge and respect every man's right to the means of subsistence if we do not strive to the best of our ability for a sufficient supply of what is necessary for his sustenance

Every man has a right to bread.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

A way has to be found to enable everyone to benefit from the fruits of the earth, and not simply to close the gap between the affluent and those who must be satisfied with the crumbs falling from the table, but above all to satisfy the demands of justice, fairness and respect for every human being.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

As far as leftists are concerned, nobody should have to pay more than anybody else. Nobody should make more than anybody else. Everything is supposed to be the same. It's the only way it's fair. It's the only way feelings don't get hurt. So when circumstances like that exist, they call that anti-competitive. Anti-competitive means they can't afford it.

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

Real freedom must include economic security.

How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!

Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

We need to have an economy that works for everybody, not just people on the top.