Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics) by Mohandas Gandhi

Author:Mohandas Gandhi [Gandhi, Mohandas]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

109 ‘immorality’: aniti. In South Africa he discovered that ‘when we go to court of law, some of us are only concerned how to win the case at any cost, and not how truth may prevail. In any case, it never does, so we think, in courts of law. But there are some in the Indian community who just do a little play-acting and make courts swallow any story that they choose. There is no doubt that this happens. It would be a great boon to the community if this habit disappeared’ (CW 10: 147–8). Again, ‘I realised that the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby – not even money, certainly not my soul’ (CW 39: 111).

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