WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg Donaldson, Frederick Lewis – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Donaldson, Frederick Lewis -- Sermon, Westminster Abbey, London (20 Mar 1925) https://wist.info/donaldson-frederic-lewis/5293/ https://wist.info/donaldson-frederic-lewis/5293/#respond Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:15:41 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=5293 Politics without principle.
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce and industry without morality.
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice.


Frederick Lewis Donaldson (1860–1953) English Anglican priest and social activist
Sermon, Westminster Abbey, London (20 Mar 1925)

Summarized in a newspaper article (1 Apr 1925) where they are referred to as "the seven social evils," "the seven cardinal crimes of modern society," and "evils of the world." These were quoted by Mohandas Gandhi in an article in Young India, (22 Oct 1925), labeled as the "Seven Social Sins," and are often attributed to Gandhi.

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