Word: mahatma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear weapons, those notions are obsolete and, more to the point, dangerous. They must be recognized as such and discarded. Politics must be reinvented: existing institutions must give way to some sort of transcendent sovereignty and security, presumably by a government that embraces all mankind. Schell invokes love and Mahatma Gandhi, appealing for a kind of international Gandhiism to replace the system of nuclear-armed nation-states we now have. How that noble ideal is to be accomplished, he does not say. "I have left to others those awesome, urgent tasks, which, imposed on us by history, constitute the political...
...their salt from royal depots. The gabelle, or salt tax, was so high during the reign of Louis XVI that it became a major grievance and eventually helped ignite the French Revolution. As late as 1930, in protest against the high British tax on salt in India, Mahatma Gandhi led a mass pilgrimage of his followers to the seaside to make then-own salt...
...pursuit of riches is no vice. We link it first to priceless human virtues, like individual drive and creativity, and only later on waste and self-indulgence. Jock Whitney's insistence on thinner wine-glasses may be only frivolous arrogance, but some will admire it anyway, forgetting perhaps Mahatma Gandhi's example of resistance to oppression As Cornelius Vanderbilt said. "The public be damned...
Sadat grew up with a hatred of Egypt's colonial British rulers and an almost fanatical admiration for Mahatma Gandhi. Confides Sadat's sister Sekeena: "When he was a little boy, he used to dress like Gandhi and pretend to be him." But if Sadat showed something resembling Gandhi's spiritual dimension in his later years, his early attempts to bring political change to Egypt were anything but nonviolent...
...tried to appease a person who knows war only." An optimist offers proof that homo sapiens is on the ascent: "After all, we were once apes and now we're human. It's a long distance between a gorilla and Mahatma Gandhi." If ridicule is used to illuminate the cast imperfect, Singer is not afraid to turn it on himself...