Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian Political and Spiritual Leader, a written list given to his departing grandson Arun Gandhi (October 1947), as quoted in Marriot (Spring 1998; p.5)
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In 1877 Wasburn was dropped from the List of Ministers by the Unitarian Church. He had become quite atheistic.
In 1811 Calhoun was a freshman congressman. Congress was considering raising 10,000 men to resist the encroachments of Great Britain. The large cost of the enterprise was preventing the measure from passing. Calhoun objected to considering the cost factor at all:
Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
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This quotation so impressed Thomas Jefferson that he wrote it in his Commonplace Book.
President Theodore Roosevelt referred to the same groups similarly. See {638453} and {639956}.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
