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Orwell's Reflections on Gandhi

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From: Peacework
Date: 20060901
Author:Orwell, George

The following is the conclusion to "Reflections on Gandhi" by George Orwell, published in Partisan Review in 1949, reprinted from www.readprint.com. The famous first phrase of the essay is, "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent...."

I have never been able to feel much liking for Gandhi, but I do not feel sure that as a political thinker he was wrong in the main, nor do I believe that his life was a failure.

It is curious that when he was assassinated, many of his warmest admirers exclaimed sorrowfully that he had lived just long enough to see his life work in ...

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