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

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

Morarji Desai

#Animal Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Self Quotes

“I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.”

Source : "Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon". Interview with Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2003.
“Stop sketching. Start building.”
“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.”

Source : "Faces of Depression: Andrew Solomon". PBS interview, www.pbs.org.
“People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening”
“I remember the first date I ever went out on. It was in high school. Her name was Marguerite. She was kind of a heavyset girl... I took her out on one date. We went out for dinner and a movie and a dinner.”
“Doesn't anyone wonder why the NAACP does not have events celebrating the first black woman secretary of state?.. Why does an organization whose mission is to advance the lot of blacks not celebrate Clarence Thomas, our black Supreme Court justice?”
“I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.”

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