Morarji Desai Quotes
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You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I…
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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
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Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.
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From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other…
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I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who…
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If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants…
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An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
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I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
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As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
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For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God…
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I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
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In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is…
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It is, therefore, a fact that anybody who wants to realise Truth or who wants to be humane, must follow non-violent ways of life, otherwise…
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One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian…
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The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
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Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
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We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
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I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's…
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One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
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