Morarji Desai Quotes

• An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.

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  Views   Objectivity   Giving  

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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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 to live at the cost of others.

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  Pain   Men   Eugenics  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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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 are vegetarians, are very bad people.

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  Compassion   People   Vegetarian  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• Society at present suffers far more from waste of money than from want of it. There is dignity in every attempt to economise. It indicates self-denial and imparts strength of character. It produces a well-regulated mind.

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  Character   Self   Mind  

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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 people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

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  Selfish   People   Want  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

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  Wrestling   Difficult And Easy   Confucianism  

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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• The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.

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  Movement   Vegetarian   Ancient  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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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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  Passion   Animal   Men  

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• I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.

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  Animal   Thinking   Self  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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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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  Self   Heaven   Helping  

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• I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

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  Believe   Form   Cruelty  

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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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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  Life   Change   Gratitude  

  "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.

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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 believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.

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  Life   Believe   Numbers  

  Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.

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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 food has got to be taken by man in order to sustain human life.

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  Taken   Men   Order  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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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 intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

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  Animal   Men   Doe  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.

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  Be Kind   Kind   Persons  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.

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  Animal   Men   Long  

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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