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Gandhi-ji’s Seven Blunders

In human society, all violence can be traced back to these seven recurrent blunders: 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 (મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી), Young India, Oct. 22, 1925 reproduced in: Collected Works, vol. 33, p. 135

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