Mahatma Gandhi

 


Mahatma Gandhi said that seven things will destroy us. Notice that all of them have to do with social and political conditions. Note also that the antidote of each of these "deadly sins" is an explicit external standard or something that is based on natural principles and laws, not on social values.
1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce (business) without morality (ethics)
5. Science without humanity
6. Religion without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle

Gandhi hoped to impart to the young minds in the school he ran at the Tolstoy Farm "It should be an essential of real education," he wrote in 1914, "that a child should learn that, in the struggle of life, it can easily conquer hate by love, untruth by truth, violence by self-sacrifice."

The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between the modern civilization, which is the kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

Other sayings that are just as relevant today:

· Human nature will only find itself when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

· The Germans were defeated not because they were necessarily in the wrong, but because the allied powers were found to possess greater brute strength.

· Brute is the only test the West has hitherto recognized

What is Humanity?

Mahatma Gandhi Today. Gandhi Memorial Lecture by Andre Brink, 1970 

Gandhi and South Africa Today. Address delivered by The Most Reverend Denis E. Hurley (Catholic Archbishop of Durban) during the Prayer Service held at Phoenix, Natal, on October 2, 1971, on the occasion of the banning of Mewa Ramgobin 

Gandhi and South Africa, 1914-1948. Edited by E.S. Reddy and Gopalkrishna Gandhi, 1993 

Gandhi's Vision of Peace. Excerpts from the ninth Desmond Tutu Peace Lecture, delivered by Ela Gandhi in Pietermaritzburg in 1993 

I Killed Mahatma Gandhi and I am Glad I Did!

Gandhiji's Vison of a Free South Africa, A collection of articles by E.S. Reddy, 1994 

Gandhi the Prisoner. A comparison of prison experiences and conditions of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in South Africa, by Nelson Mandela. From: B. R. Nanda, ed., Mahatma Gandhi: 125 Years. New Delhi: Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 1995 

Gandhi, Workers and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa, by Alec Erwin, 1995 

Speech by Nelson Mandela at Conferral of Freedom of Pietermaritzburg on Mahatma Gandhi, 25 April 1997 

The Tolstoy Farm: Gandhi's Experiment in "Cooperative Commonwealth", Surendra Bhana, South African Historical Journal, No. 7, November 1975 

Gandhi and the Black People of South Africa, James D. Hunt, Shaw University, 17 March 1990


 

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