Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application.
Gandhi, Mahatma. The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Vol. 72, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1978, p. 302.
We all have 20-20 hindsight, and sometimes well analyzed decisions turn out badly as the result of unfortunate circumstances.
Greenspan, and his huge staff of economists all completely missed predicting the Meltdown of 2008. They had the power to regulate many of the banks and other companies that got into trouble in the Great Recession. However, all the financiers and economists of the banks of America with their staffs, not only missed the predictions but recommended the disastrous course of activity that almost destroyed the nation’s economy. Only a handful of economists predicted the Meltdown. Those few were not connected with any of the banks or any of the government bank regulators which had become so much like each other as the result of the revolving door, that there was little difference in their thinking.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā (Sanskrit: "great-souled", "venerable"), first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.
