Quote of Nelson Mandela - Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion...
Biography - Nelson Mandela:
South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader.
Born: 1918 - Died: 2013
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: South Africa
Born: 1918 - Died: 2013
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: South Africa
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality.He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.
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