“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

19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967

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Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former pr… 1896–1995

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