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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

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.

Therefore, vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of com-passion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

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