Morarji Desai quotes
-
“Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "Change your Body - Is your Body Acidic or Alkaline?" by Monica Wright, and Matt Thom, (p. 44), 2014.
-
“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.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
“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.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
“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.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
-
“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.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : 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.
-
“Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.”
-- Morarji Desai -
“One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
“As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
-
“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.”
-- Morarji Desai -
“An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : 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.
-
“I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
“The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
-
“Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.”
-- Morarji Desai -
“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.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
-
“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.”
-- Morarji DesaiSource : "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.
You may also like:
-
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Former Prime Minister of India -
B. R. Ambedkar
Indian Politician -
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Journalist -
C. Rajagopalachari
Lawyer -
Indira Gandhi
Former Prime Minister of India -
Jawaharlal Nehru
Former Prime Minister of India -
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Former Prime Minister of India -
Mahatma Gandhi
Lawyer -
Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India -
Margaret Thatcher
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -
P. V. Narasimha Rao
Former Prime Minister of India -
Rajiv Gandhi
Former Prime Minister of India -
Sarojini Naidu
Poet -
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Former President of India -
Sonia Gandhi
President of Indian National Congress -
Subhas Chandra Bose
Political leader -
Swami Vivekananda
Author -
V. P. Singh
Former Prime Minister of India -
Vallabhbhai Patel
Indian statesman -
Vinoba Bhave
Author