13 Quotes by Morarji Desai
- I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form.
- We should propagate the values of vegetarianism.
- Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.
- The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one.
- One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another.
- I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him.
- As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed.
- An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view.
- 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.
- 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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