Morarji Desai Professions : Former Prime Minister of India Born : February 29, 1896 Died : April 10, 1995 Browse All Authors Top 23 quotes by Morarji Desai 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 Desai gratitude change life All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get. Morarji Desai confucianism difficult-and-easy wrestling 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 Desai eugenics pain men I believe in preventing cruelty to all living beings in any form. Morarji Desai cruelty form believe One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another. Morarji Desai be-kind kind persons As long as man eats animals how can cruelty to animals be removed. Morarji Desai animal men long The vegetarian movement is an ancient movement and is not quite a modern one. Morarji Desai ancient vegetarian movement 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 Desai vegetarian compassion people Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. Morarji Desai self helping heaven 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 self mind character An expert gives an objective view. He gives his own view. Morarji Desai objectivity views giving 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 Desai doe animal men Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. Morarji Desai passion animal men 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 Desai selfish want people I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal. Morarji Desai self animal thinking 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 Desai numbers life believe 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 Desai taken men order We should propagate the values of vegetarianism. Morarji Desai values vegetarianism should 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. Morarji Desai universe god matter believe I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal. Morarji Desai say think reason animal Similar Authors Atal Bihari Vajpayee former-prime-minister-of-india Indira Gandhi former-prime-minister-of-india Charan Singh former-prime-minister-of-india I. K. Gujral former-prime-minister-of-india H. D. Deve Gowda former-prime-minister-of-india Gulzarilal Nanda former-prime-minister-of-india All Authors
