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Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most influential figures in modern social and political activism, considered these traits to be the most spiritually perilous to humanity. “Seven Social Sins”
1) Politics without Principle
2) Wealth Without Work
3) Pleasure Without Conscience
4) Knowledge without Character
5) Commerce without Morality
6) Science without Humanity
7) Worship without SacrificeThis is the 8th sin by Arun Gandhi. “Rights Without Responsibility”
~ Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi (1925) Young India
“Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality….”
–Michael Ellner
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
~John Quincy Adams
The unity of freedom has never relied on a uniformity of opinion.
- John F. Kennedy
“Men go mad in herds, but only come to their senses one by one.“
- Charles Mackay, 19th Century Scottish journalist.
“The nature of the universe is such that the ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”
- Aldous Huxley.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
– W. H. Auden
