Morarji Desai Quotes

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When what I believe is the truth, I must act on it. But, I consider that you have every right to think what you think is the truth. I pay a price for adhering to my truth. I pay and do it cheerfully.

Morarji Desai
[becoming the Prime Minister of this country] That's destiny. That's not the result of my work. But, what I do as Prime Minister is a new action for which I am responsible. And whatever wrong I have done, I'll have to pay for it.

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I worked as a volunteer at that session and heard Mahatma Gandhi for the first time. I was profoundly impressed by his personality. Mahatama Gandhi was explaining his weapon of non-violent struggle for securing Swaraj.... Mahatma Ganndhi told his young companions – May be you don't agree today with what I say. But I am confident that within twenty five or thirty years, we will get Swaraj by this method. This purportedly proved true and just 31 years later India became independent.

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To live a life of truth one has to suffer, but must suffer cheerfully

Morarji Desai
The Home Rule Movement had just started at that time. I used to attend many of the public meetings held under its auspices. I heard with great interest what Mrs Annie Besant whose language was so charmingly appealing and who used the silver tones of her voice with such effect that many students came under influence. After I passed my intermediate examination, in the last days of 1915, there was an annual session of Indian National Congress in Bombay which Sir Satyendra Prasanna Sanja presided.

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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.

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Whoever said Gandhi was against technology was wrong. I am not against industries. There are times when other things have to play a role—like food. But big industries are essential. Take electricity, or steel. These are essentially for big industries only.

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Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.

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The experience that I have, I think very few have. I've been in public life for 50 or 60 years. With this experience, a person acquires a deeper insight into life. And, if I say that and they can't give a reply, they merely say I am out of place.

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

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In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

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Vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of compassion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world.

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Fate gets you into positions of power. Life takes you there. I only do my duty and service to the people. I take all conditions as they come cheerfully and do my duty.

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Is truth out of place today? Then we are gone. Will it ever be out of place? Is international politics based on convenience rather than ethics? That's the malady of the world today. I tried to do things differently.

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God has also given the sense to control. He has given us intelligence which could be utilised both for good and bad. I am not saying it's easy for people to adopt celibacy—very few can do it.

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

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There is an inherent quality [resistant to change] in this country which doesn't allow anybody to destroy it. Whoever tries to destroy it will himself be destroyed. Ravan was destroyed.

Morarji Desai
I receive letters from people who've been cured with the 'urine-therapy'…. Several years ago, a man called Lawrence Armstrong was suffering from TB. One day, he was reading the psalms from the Bible, he found the passage, 'Drink from your own cistern when you're in trouble.' He wondered what it meant. It struck him that it was his own urine. And, he saw in the veterinary hospitals some animals given their own urine by his doctor friend. Nature has provided its own cures. What happens to the birds and animals in the forest? For 45 days, he consumed all the urine he passed and at the end of it, he was a young man. Then he wrote a book, "Waters of Life".

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