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We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For some, the universe ends at the borders of their villages; even for others, at the threshold of their home doors.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
India's soul lived in the villages.
— Maloy Krishna Dhar
Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
— Nancy Spain
Villages that their leaders came together to save themselves.
— Chinua Achebe
I went to work the next day out of curiosity, as people return to their villages after the war to see what is left.
— Miranda July
Smart habitation is an integrated area of villages and a city working in harmony and where the rural and urban divide has reduced to thin line.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin.
— Mahatma Gandhi
New York is not even a city, it's a congerie of rotten villages.
— James M. Cain
I am one of those who firmly believe that our cities thrive at the expense of our villages; that our industries exploit agriculture.
— Verghese Kurien
It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.
— Nandan Nilekani
Your Village may be different from other people's Villages, but we are all prisoners.
— Patrick McGoohan
The future of India lies in its villages
— Mahatma Gandhi
Afghan villages traditionally ran their own affairs, each valley a law unto itself. Afghanistan never enjoyed much of a central government.
— Daniel P. Bolger
I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.
— Pete Seeger
I grew up in a small village close to a big lake. There are heavy winds there, and they always sound different. I like these sounds best.
— Christian Fennesz
In the vast plain to the north I have sometimes seen, in the morning sun, the smoke of a thousand villages where no missionary has ever been.
— Robert Moffat
The only thing missing was Miles. But he was probably circling somewhere, destroying villages and hoarding gold in his mountain lair.
— Francesca Zappia
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
— Deepak Chopra
Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.
— Rory Stewart
Look at those beautiful villages, in the heart of nature." Evans was staring out the window but saw only poverty. The
— Michael Crichton
Villages were burning under unknown constellations, people were screaming, and that touch on his neck . . . that awful touch
— Stephen King
It's quite easy for schisms to develop in societies, in villages, cities or countries.
— Rory Kinnear
The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We teach our boys to firebomb villages, but we won't let them write fuck on the side of their planes because it's obscene.
— Francis Ford Coppola
Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can ...
— Narendra Modi
Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.
— Ed Miliband
The rise of Donald Trump is what happens when you build Potemkin villages in Weimar republics.
— Dean Cavanagh
If there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
— Washington Irving
The wolf lives right here. In this village". He looked at the villages. "Among you. It is one of you.
— Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
Coming back after seven months in Indian villages, I saw the craziness of the Western
— Walter Isaacson
If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
All the real things in Russia are done in the villages.
— Ernest Poole
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!
— Mahatma Gandhi
A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial.
— Baden Powell De Aquino
We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become.
— Fennel Hudson
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
— Gavrilo Princip
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
— Mason Cooley
The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.
— Andrew Miller
Our exile organizations have been our way of replacing the cities and villages we have lost.
— Henning Mankell
villages were regularly patrolled by the Taliban.
— Eric Blehm
There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.
— Dasha Zhukova
They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies.
— Bruno Schulz
The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be discerned.
— Patrick W. Carr
The true India resides in its villages
— Charan Singh
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger.
— Colin Farrell
Khaddar was conceived with a much more ambitious object, that is, to make our villages starvation-proof.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.
— Ray Kurzweil
India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
BJP is committed to transform the agriculture sector. We want to increase farmer income and the purchasing power of villages.
— Narendra Modi
I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
— Abbas Kiarostami
The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The soul of India lives in its villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We have shown that solar-electrified villages can be technically and financially self-sufficient.
— Bunker Roy
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.
— Mahatma Gandhi
New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.
— Alistair Cooke
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
— Henry David Thoreau