Thursday, May 26, 2011

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Seven Blunders of the World

The Seven Blunders of the World is a list that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi gave to his grandson Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper, on their final day together, shortly before his assassination.

The seven blunders are:

* Wealth without work
* Pleasure without conscience
* Knowledge without character
* Commerce without morality
* Science without humanity
* Worship without sacrifice
* Politics without principle

This list grew from Gandhi's search for the roots of violence. He called these acts of passive violence. Preventing these is the best way to prevent oneself or one's society from reaching a point of violence.

To this list, Arun Gandhi added an eighth blunder,

* Rights without responsibilities


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

2 comments:

Captain Tightpants said...

Had to save that one, thanks miss.

Old NFO said...

Goood one and they are ALL true... of course in this day and age, all of them are too old fashioned for the left wing loonies... sigh...